Ethiopian arrested of human trafficking A 34-year-old Ethiopian man has been arrested here in northern Italy on charges of human trafficking.

Mystery of vanished third Riace bronze, 35 years on Thirty-five years after the famed Riace bronzes emerged from the sea, a probe into a third ancient statue thought to have gone missing at the time is gathering pace.

A Greek temple has been found in the sea in front of Reggio Calabria's main railway station.

Robert 'Freddy Kruger' Englund will shoot his third film as a director entirely on location in Calabria, the Calabria Film Foundation announced on Tuesday.

Italian police on Thursday arrested 40 suspected members of two 'Ndrangheta gangs whose long-running feud erupted in a mid-August massacre in Germany.

Thirty-five years after the famed Riace bronzes emerged from the sea, a probe into a third ancient statue thought to have gone missing at the time is gathering pace.

A 12-year-old turtle is to be awarded honorary citizenship of this seaside resort in southwest Italy, after being saved from near death by locals.

The loggerhead sea turtle, named Golia (Goliath), was rescued at the start of September off the coast of Brancaleone, a Calabrian town on the toe of Italy's 'boot'.

Thanks to a generous grant from the Vuolo-Bernstein Family Foundation, the Italian Jewish Cultural Center of Calabria (IjCCC) will begin activities in January, 2007.

This small village in the southern province of Potenza is trying to become the latest Italian town to enter the Guinness Book of Records by producing what it hopes will be the world's longest sausage.

(ANSA) - A slain Calabrian politician urged his region's youth to help fight the Mafia shortly before he was killed, it emerged on Thursday. Francesco Fortugno said Calabria's young people were the future of the Mafia-plagued region and its hope for renewal.