Marta Sottoriva, a teacher in Venice, has tirelessly campaigned for various causes in her cherished lagoon city, from railing against giant cruise ships to battling soaring rents. Now she is busy preparing banners, handing out flyers and shouting through megaphones in squares as she joins dozens of activists in whipping up resistance to the “umpteenth

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is no longer the second richest man in the world, according to the Forbes list. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has now taken the spot from him. Ellison stood second with 243 billion dollars. The news was given by Forbes through their world’s billionaires list. In the quarter ending in May, Oracle

At midnight on Friday Sveta’s four-year-old daughter was asleep on the floor outside their shattered apartment block, as the rest of the family weighed up where they should spend the night. A missile from the first Iranian salvo fired at Tel Aviv had landed a couple of blocks away, killing at least one person, injuring

Israelis were celebrating on Friday what many see as a stunning new success by their country’s foreign intelligence service, the Mossad. Hours after launching 200 warplanes in a wave of strikes against Iran, Israeli officials released footage they said showed the Mossad agents deep inside Iran assembling missiles and explosive drones aimed at targets near

It’s been just over 24 hours since Israel launched a massive two-pronged attack against Iran, aimed at destroying the country’s nuclear sites and decapitating its military leadership in Tehran. Iran, which vowed a “crushing response” to the attack, launched several waves of deadly strikes against locations across Israel overnight into Saturday, with both sides reporting

Washington, DC – After taking the oath of office for his second term in January, United States President Donald Trump said he would push to “stop all wars” and leave a legacy of a “peacemaker and unifier”. But six months in, missiles are flying across the Middle East after Israel attacked Iran, risking an all-out regional

This is an incredible time to be Jeff Bezos. You own James Bond. You shoot pop stars into space inside a comically phallic vanity project. Thanks to the recent revelations about Elon Musk, you are currently the richest man in the world who doesn’t—allegedly—succumb to ketamine-induced incontinence on a regular basis. And best of all,

It may feel like the world is going to hell, but for Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez, it’s a Bonfire of the Vanities moment. In a little less than two weeks, the billionaire and his fiancée will take over Venice for the wedding that will be a three-day party, and Stuart Heritage tells us what