Turkey's Culture and Tourism Minister Mehmet Nuri Ersoy opened the "Troy and Rome: Ancient Mediterranean Myths, Legends, Stories" exhibition at the Colosseum in Rome. The exhibition, featuring 221 artifacts, aims to highlight shared cultural heritage and boost tourism.
Turkey's Minister of Culture, Mehmet Nuri Ersoy, opened the "Troy and Rome: Ancient Mediterranean Myths, Legends, Stories" exhibition at the Colosseum in Rome. The exhibition features 221 artifacts, with 50 displayed for the first time, highlighting shared cultural heritage. Ersoy emphasized its importance for tourism and cultural promotion, noting the success of a previous exhibition at the same venue.
Curling will be available at Rome's Colle Oppio park from mid-June to mid-September, featuring three synthetic ice rinks. The initiative aims to make the sport accessible to all ages and backgrounds.
PM Narendra Modi met Italian PM Giorgia Meloni for dinner and a walk through the Colosseum in Rome. They discussed various topics and expressed eagerness to boost India-Italy friendship. Modi also interacted with the Indian diaspora.
Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!While the match itself may not have been up to much, the spectacle and occasion of Arsenal’s win over Atlético Madrid on Tuesday night made it a unique and memorable evening in the club’s history. Pre-match smoke and pyro provided the soundtrack to the raucous welcome their players received as they arrived on the team coach. The rabble-rousing Over Land and Sea tifo couldn’t have looked less like its dismal, forlorn-cannon-on-a-bedsheet counterpart of yore. The unifying roar that greeted Arsenal’s gladiators as they strode out from the bowels of the colosseum they call home was off the scale. It was as if a sizeable proportion of match-going Arsenal fans had finally twigged there’s more to supporting your team than turning up five minutes before kick-off and sitting in nervous near-silence for 90 minutes. “We felt it,” cooed Bukayo Saka, in a post-match interview with the CBS Bigger Cup B@nter Show. “Since we were on the coach, I’ve never seen the Emirates like this in my whole career. It was so special. When the game started, they pushed us. It was just a beautiful moment.” Continue reading...
A Russian drone strike on 14 February 2025 punched a 15-square-metre hole through the New Safe Confinement arch at Chornobyl, destroying key systems that contain radioactive material. The $2.5bn structure, built to shield the world from the ruins of reactor No. 4, now requires €500m in repairs within four years or its 100-year lifespan cannot be guaranteed. If the underlying sarcophagus collapses, over 100 tonnes of nuclear fuel would be released into the air. The strike occurred during Russia's ongoing war against Ukraine, with the plant having already experienced occupation in 2022 and multiple blackouts since October 2024.
There are about 2,200 farms within the city limits of Italy’s capital alone, making it the largest agricultural municipality in Europe.
