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Bloomsbury USA chief Adrienne Vaughan was killed on Thursday. Vaughan was on vacation with her family and went on an excursion to the scenic coast where her cruiser collided with a tourist boat, carrying a wedding banquet.

wolf statue that once sat atop a pillar in central Benghazi before disappearing decades ago, found on a farm whose owner said he bought the sculpture as scrap. Authorities were alerted to the colonial-era statue after a tip off and discovered it in a farm near Benghazi belonging to Saied Mohammed Bourabida, who told them he had bought it from a metal yard because he liked the way it looked. «I remembered this statue in its position near the port from when I was young… I had a smelting workshop and when I saw it by chance at the scrap dealer's I liked its shape and the quality of work so I bought it,» he said. Bourabida, 80, kept the statue, a replica of the famous Capitoline Wolf sculpture that depicts a legendary scene of ancient Rome, in plain view under a spreading tree next to the terrace of his house. Khaled al-Aqouri, head of the tourism and antiquities department in the Benghazi police, said he was confident that Bourabida had not known that it was still public property.

Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week during Europe’s heat wave last month

The Spanish owner of CIMIC, Australia’s biggest construction group, has confirmed it wants to use its stake in Barcelona-headquartered toll road operator Abertis to expand into tolling motorways in Australia.

By Antonella Cinelli and Giuseppe Fonte

British Museum Library needed a larger reading room. Antonio Panizzi, the Keeper of Printed Books (1837-56), had the idea of constructing a round room in the empty central courtyard of the Museum building. With a design by Sydney Smirke (1798-1877), work on the Reading Room began in 1854.

By Giuseppe Fonte

MILAN (Reuters) — Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares said a production target of one million vehicles in Italy it is discussing with Rome was well within reach but it could not be a one-sided commitment and the government must support it.

Belt and Road Initiative involves infrastructure projects to connect Asia with European and African countries. Ushakov said Putin also plans to travel to Turkey at some point to fulfill a promise to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, although the dates for that visit have not been decided yet. In addition, the Kremin received an invitation for Putin to participate in a Group of 20 summit in India in September, he said.

The U.N. chief has urged Russia to resume the internationally brokered deal so that grain can be shipped from Ukraine's Black Sea ports during the war

Migrants in Tunisia’s port city of Sfax who are aiming to make Europe their new home are now sharing the burden and the blame for escalating tensions deeply tinged with racism amid the fears of European leaders who are trying to stanch the numbers of p...

ROME (Reuters) — Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who will visit the White House on Thursday, said that U.S. President Joe Biden had never challenged her on the issue of Rome being part of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

By Angelo Amante and Keith Weir

Salman Rushdie at a social event. He was looking well. And while I was filled with relief and felt uplifted on seeing the images, it was a severe jolt to see again his customised spectacles, one dark lens covering the eye he had lost in the brutal stabbing at a public event in upstate New York in August 2022.

Amsterdam wants to move a cruise liner terminal out of the heart of the historic capital city

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend next Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the BRICS summit in South Africa next month. Putin will be the only BRICS leader to attend the summit virtually while all other leaders will join the event in person in South Africa. “By mutual agreement, President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation will not attend the summit but the Russian Federation will be represented by Foreign Minister Mr.

South Africa says Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend an economic summit in Johannesburg next month

Europe is witnessing record high temperature and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has predicted that heat wave in the northern hemisphere is set to intensify further in the next few days. In a typical scene in Italy, where the temperature is expected to top 40C on Wednesday, tourists are seen trying to keep cool by splashing in fountains and standing under giant fans set up outside the Colosseum.

South Africa’s president says that arresting Russian President Vladimir Putin — should he show up at an economic summit next month in Johannesburg — would amount to a “declaration of war” by his country

From North America to Europe and Asia, people gulped water and sought shelter from the sweltering heat, with the mercury expected to reach new highs in several places in the next few days. Europe, the globe's fastest-warming continent, was bracing for its hottest-ever temperature this week on Italy's islands of Sicily and Sardinia, where a high of 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) is predicted, according to the European Space Agency.

southern Europe began a brutally hot week on Monday with temperatures expected to top 40 C — or 104 F — on a continent already overburdened by tourists. The health ministry issued 10 recommendations to protect elderly people, the sick and pets from the heat, urging people to stay indoors during the hottest hours, drink at least 1.5 liters (nearly half a gallon) of water a day and refrain from strenuous exercise at peak daylight times. The culprit was a high-pressure anticyclone dubbed Cerberus, the multi-headed dog that guards gates to the underworld in Greek mythology.