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  • Proposing on Valentine's Day, Albanese becomes Australia's first leader to get engaged in office

    February 15, 2024 - 1:47 AM

    MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Anthony Albanese has become the first Australian prime minister to get engaged while in office, revealing Thursday that his partner accepted his marriage proposal on Valentine's Day.

  • Nearly 80% of Italians say they are Catholic. But few regularly go to church

    October 05, 2023 - 12:02 PM

    ISOLA DEL GRAN SASSO, Italy (AP) — Two children scribbled petitions to St. Gabriele dell’Addolorata in the vast sanctuary where the young saint is venerated in this central Italian mountain village. Andrea, 6, asked for blessings for his family and pets. Sofia, 9, gave thanks for winning a dance competition.

  • If you can't beat them, eat them: Italians cope with invasion of blue crabs this summer

    August 19, 2023 - 11:03 PM

    ORBETELLO, Italy (AP) — Italians are fighting an invasion of predatory blue crabs with an attitude borne of centuries of culinary making do: If you can’t beat them, eat them.

  • As the summer breezes fade, sweltering Europeans give air conditioning a skeptical embrace

    August 02, 2023 - 5:01 AM

    MILAN (AP) — During Europe's heat wave last month, Floriana Peroni’s vintage clothing store had to close for a week. A truck of rented generators blocked her door as they fed power to the central Roman neighborhood hit by a blackout as temperatures surged. The main culprit: air conditioning.

  • Tourists are packing European hotspots, boosted by Americans

    July 13, 2023 - 4:02 AM

    VENICE, Italy (AP) — Tourists are waiting more than two hours to visit the Acropolis in Athens. Taxi lines at Rome’s main train station are running just as long. And so many visitors are concentrating around St. Mark’s Square in Venice that crowds get backed up crossing bridges — even on weekdays.

  • Companies are finding it's not so simple to leave Russia. Some are quietly staying put

    May 25, 2023 - 8:31 AM

    When Russia invaded Ukraine, global companies were quick to respond, some announcing they would get out of Russia immediately, others curtailing imports or new investment. Billions of dollars' worth of factories, energy holdings and power plants were written off or put up for sale, accompanied by fierce condemnation of the war and expressions of solidarity with Ukraine.

  • Raising the bar: Soap gets a refresh (no bottle needed)

    April 17, 2023 - 10:01 AM

    Wyllow Elizabeth started making bars of soap when she found that her skin was sensitive to many store-bought ones. She made soaps for her own use, and only ventured into her local farmers' markets, in Nova Scotia, Canada, to sell the extras.

  • Pay-Per-Chew: More restaurants trying subscription programs

    February 21, 2023 - 4:52 PM

    Consumers are willing to pay monthly subscription fees for streaming services, pet food and even toilet paper. And now some restaurants are betting they'll do the same for their favorite meals.

  • At New York Fashion Week, music can be as crucial as clothes

    February 17, 2023 - 12:14 PM

    NEW YORK (AP) — The carpets have been rolled up and the racks of clothes have disappeared, leaving only a few stray feathers and sequins behind, but some New York Fashion Week guests may still be humming the tunes they heard on the runways for days to come.

  • Sober or bright? Europe faces holidays during energy crunch

    November 26, 2022 - 10:30 AM

    VERONA, Italy (AP) — Early season merrymakers sipping mulled wine and shopping for holiday decorations packed the Verona Christmas market for its inaugural weekend. But beyond the wooden market stalls, the Italian city still has not decked out its granite-clad pedestrian streets with twinkling holiday lights as officials debate how bright to make the season during an energy crisis.
  • iN RESPONSE: Readers have their say
    Following are emailed reader responses to stories or letters to the editor for the third week of April 2024. They have been edited slightly for readability.  Got something you want to add? Send an email to editor Marshall Jones at mjo
  • Discharge coming from the Sandher Fruit Packer plant. Fruit packers near Kelowna fined another $78,000
    A fruit packing plant in the Ellison area east of Kelowna was hit with another $78,368 in fines for discharging effluent into a failed septic field. That’s now more than $110,000 in fines since 2022 for the same issue at Sandher Fruit

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