The Latest Breaking News from Sicily

Post-pandemic, I’ve become a right Little Englander, even though I’m from Glasgow. I hate leaving the country because I hate travel, and I loathe flying. Gone are the days of any kind of nostalgic glamour a la Alan Whicker or that scene in Catch Me If You Can where Leonardo…

Firefighters have been battling flames across the Mediterranean as villages and holiday resorts are evacuated

Rome, Florence and Bologna among areas affected as forecasters say Sicily and Sardinia could face record 49C temperatures

Europe is currently in the midst of a heatwave. Italy, in particular, is expected to face blistering heat, with temperatures projected to reach 40℃ to 45℃. There’s even a chance that the current European temperature record of 48.8℃, set in Sicily in 2021, could be surpassed.

The Cockney actor is living in Sicily amid Hollywood writers' strike and has also finally quit smoking after 44 years

For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where…

A self-guided holiday across this wild, beguiling corner of the island offers up a subtropical landscape, incredible old buildings and crystal-clear waters

But fans shouldn't get ahead of themselves yet, as it looks as though the pair have just been working together

Palermo has long been coveted by empires from two continents, and brandishes its history with pride – but as Jo Fernandez discovers, beyond its past there remain fantastic things to see, do and eat in Italy’s diverse Mediterranean city