Readers favored Mediterranean locales as well as chillier destinations in our annual “World’s Best Awards” survey for 2025.

Sicily, an island with a history as rich and diverse as its landscapes, has been a crossroads of civilizations from the Greeks to the Normans, Arabs to the Bourbons. Known for its ancient ruins, ...

PORTICELLO, Italy (AP) — A British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, was lifted from the water Saturday as salvage recovery ...

A British-flagged luxury superyacht that sank off Sicily last year, killing U.K. tech magnate Mike Lynch and six others, was lifted fully out of the water on Saturday afternoon as salvage recovery ...

The hull of the superyacht Bayesian, which sank near Palermo, Sicily, on August 19, 2024, is lifted by cranes during salvage operations off the village of Porticciolo on Friday, June 20, 2025.

Salvage workers raised a superyacht that sank off Italy during a pre-dawn storm last year, killing UK tech mogul Mike Lynch and six others.

PORTICELLO, Italy: Salvage workers on Friday (Jun 20) raised a superyacht that sank off Italy during a pre-dawn storm last year, killing UK tech mogul Mike Lynch and six others. The luxury 56m "Ba ...

MILAN (AP) — The British superyacht that sank off Sicily last August killing seven is scheduled to be lifted from the seabed this weekend, after the removal of its 72-meter (236-foot) mast, the ...

FILE - Italian Coast Guard's Luigi Dattilo patrol boat, left, assists the multi-purpose floating work barge Hebo Lift 2 monitoring the stretch of sea off Porticello, near Palermo, Sicily, Italy, ...

The 13.5-billion-euro project would carry trains and six lanes of traffic, allowing cars to cross the Strait of Messina in 15 minutes. But widespread scepticism about the project continues, after ...

Italy hopes to begin constructing the world's largest suspension bridge connecting Sicily to the Italian mainland this summer amid widespread skepticism that it will ever be built. The ...