When two bodies were found in a popular Roman park, Italians wanted answers. A TV program specializing in missing people helped identify them, and a suspect.
Archaeologists believe the mosaic may have once decorated the bedroom floor of a villa or another private residence belonging to one of Pompeii’s wealthier families.
Prices for coffee beans have risen, but in a country where coffee drinking is a ritual, customers demand cheap espresso. That has left coffee bars in a bind.
A cup of espresso at the Lavazza Museum in Turin, Italy. Executives from Lavazza and Illy have warned for more than a year that higher coffee prices are most likely here to stay.
A fuel tank exploded in an eastern neighborhood of Rome. Firefighters and police officers had already been called to the gas station after an earlier incident involving a truck.