Who is Navanethem “Navi” Pillay who won the 2026 Nobel Peace Prize: commitment against genocide
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the South African jurist and activist Navanethem “Navi” Pillay, 85, for «her commitment ...
The Vajont disaster on 9 October 1963: what we know today about the tragic landslide of Monte Toc
Today marks the anniversary of the Vajont tragedy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: on 9 October 1963, a landslide that detached from ...
Why Anne Carson won the 2026 Nobel Prize for Literature and the unpredictability of the prize
After the Nobel Prize for Medicine, the Nobel Prize for Physics and the Nobel Prize for Chemistry, today the Nobel ...
Why Italy has had so many electoral laws since 1948: from proportional to Stabilicum
But why did our country have so many electoral laws? To give you an idea, from 1993 to today, 5 ...
Stabilicum or Melonellum? How the new electoral law works and what changes for the 2027 elections
With 227 votes in favor and 164 against, the Chamber definitively approved the new electoral law, renamed Stabilicum (or Melonellum ...
When the heat turns on in 2026: map, dates and times region by region
Although there is still stable and sunny weather in much of Italy, with October just around the corner, the heating ...
The hijacking of the Achille Lauro ship on 7 October 1985: history and crisis of Sigonella
The Achille Lauro was a passenger ship active between 1947 and 1994, known for its terrorist hijacking in 1985. Built ...
The school where Aristotle educated Alexander the Great over 2,300 years ago has been discovered in Greece
In Mieza, in ancient Macedonia (now northern Greece, near modern Naoussa, in the Ematia region), new excavation campaigns are providing ...
Who are Jehovah’s Witnesses and what they believe: the rules of the Christian religious movement
Jehovah’s Witnesses are a millennialist and restorationist Christian confession, present in over 200 countries around the world. Overall, according to ...
British Airways plane loses 28,000 feet in a few minutes: what happens with depressurization
A British Airways Boeing 777-200ER headed from London Heathrow to Chicago O’Hare made a rapid emergency descent, dropping about 28,000 ...
