Rome

Rarely, if ever, has a candidate city to host the World Expo contributed more profoundly than Saudi Arabia. — AFP/FileRome, Busan and Riyadh are the three candidates in line to host the World Expo 2030 as the decision will be…

Some people really want their name to be a part of history, but carving your initials into the side of an ancient monument isn’t the way to be immortalized. Two more European tourists were caught this month defacing the nearly…

<!-- -->The man brushed off the grope, saying: "Love, you know I was joking".A court ruling in Italy that found a 66-year-old school janitor not guilty of groping a student because the act only lasted less than 10 seconds has sparked…

ROME: The lines to get into the Pantheon, one of Rome's most famous ancient sites, were high-season typical, snaking past the obelisk-topped fountain in the middle of the square to the cafes at the back. But they were especially slow-moving…

<!-- -->Mass tourism has proved deadly for the bakery that catered to Popes.Rome: The Arrigoni bakery has made bread for Popes for almost a century, from rosetta rolls to wholewheat loaves -- but mass tourism has proved deadly and no…

Yet while this glamorous, gilded formula is all present and correct, it’s also underpinned by a very Italian rigor that nods to the building’s origins in the 1930s, whether in the Ginori vases from the same decade designed by Gio Ponti, or…

An unidentified tourist who visited the nearly 2,000-year-old Colosseum in Rome has sparked outrage in Italy after he was filmed carving his name and his apparent girlfriend’s name into a wall at the historic site. Italy’s culture and…

Doctors are generally held in high regard today, but Romans of the first century were skeptical, even scornful, of medical practitioners, many of whom ministered to ailments they did not understand. Poets especially ridiculed surgeons for…

Within the four walls of the Six Senses, time stands still. Or at least, it did within the four walls of the temperature-controlled pool where I found myself floating on a lazy Saturday afternoon last month. Gazing up at the marble walls…

Emulating past successes is never easy, but Casper Ruud made it appear so on Friday at Roland Garros. The Norwegian charged to his third championship match in the space of five Grand Slam events with a seemingly…