The Local

A Christmas tree lasted just 24 hours in Naples' most famous shopping arcade before someone stole it. By Friday moing, only a few branches, some baubles and a stump remained of the tree installed the day before in the Galleria Umberto I. The thieves had removed the rest of the metres-high tree, decorations and all. Photos show a clean cut, suggested that the culprits may have been equipped with a chainsaw. The tree had been donated to the glass-roofed arcade by the Gran Caffè Gambrinus, one of Naples' oldest establishments, just the day before. It was "a present for Naples", the café said in a video inaugurating the decorations. It's not the first ti...

More than 8,000 migrants have been rescued in waters off Libya during the past 48 hours in difficult weather conditions, Italy's coastguard said Tuesday. "On Monday, we rescued about 5,000 people from four large boats, onesmaller one and 18 rubber dinghies," a spokesman told AFP. People were pulled...

Some 5,000 migrants bound for Italy were rescued in waters off the coast of Libya between Thursday and Saturday moing by Italian and Libyan coastguards, statements from both countries said. Through Friday until Saturday moing, coastguard...

Hard-working pizza chefs cooked up a record-breaking 5,836 pizzas in around 12 hours in the southe region of Puglia. That's an impressive average of 550 pizzas an hour, or more than nine every minute. The previous record of 5,070 - which had been set in Chiasso, Switzerland, in June 2015 by the Naples Academy of Pizza - was broken after ten hours and 23 minutes, and the Pugliese chefs went on to bake a further 766 delicious pies. The record of pizza production was first established by employees of a Singaporean restaurant who made a total of 3,574, so the chefs will be pleased to bring the title back home. It was a team effort of 43 pizza-makers, many from Italy's association of qualified pi...