Venice, Italy News

It's official, Viking Cruises announced today, June 19, 2013, via a press release sent to the media that it has cut steel on its premier ocean liner the Viking Star at Fincantieri's Marghera shipyard outside of Venice, Italy .

This past weekend, Austin chef Paul Qui, an admitted landlubber, braved wind and waves to win the San Pellegrino Cooking Cup, an international competition in which ten competing chefs from different countries prepare fancy food on moving boats in Venice, Italy.

From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.

Alexey Titarenko's "Bell Tower" is among the 23 images in Venice , his solo show at the C. Grimaldis Gallery until July 6. Time is as malleable as clay for Alexey Titarenko's camera.

You've heard of Lake Como , home to over-the-top palazzos, super-sleek yachts, and George Clooney's exploits.

These are high waters of more than 140 cm, which cover around 54 percent of the city.

It may be possible to spend an entire lifetime discovering Italy and still many stones would be left unturned.

A ceremony scheduled for this morning in Le Bourget's static park at the Paris Air Show marks delivery of the first example of a Sukhoi SSJ100 built to operate in the Western world to Mexican airline Interjet.

Having just returned from Venice, with its literal acres of art, crowded parties, Arsenale hikes, and tourists wielding umbrellas through the rain, one exhibition left me gratefully awed.

Top Chef: Texas winner Paul Qui won the title of Young Chef of the Year 2013 at this year's S. Pellegrino Cooking Cup in Venice, Italy this past weekend.

ABOARD THE EASTERN & ORIENTAL EXPRESS - Standing on the open-air observation platform as the train lumbered noisily along the tracks, I nursed one of those tropical drinks noted for its jade green color and pyramid of fruit perched precariously on the rim of the glass.

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But climate-proofing a city or coastline is expensive, as shown by New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's $20 billion plan to build floodwalls, levees and other defenses against rising seas.

This rendering made available by the New Venice Consortium on Dec. 5, 2008, shows the moveable barriers that will be used to prevent severe flooding in Venice, Italy.

ISS Tositti, part of Inchcape Shipping Services, has opened two additional offices in Sicily.

Venice, June 14 - The first floodgate was installed Friday in the controversial water barrier under construction in the Venice lagoon.

If you ask me, I'll tell you that "The Ocean at the End of the Lane" is Neil Gaiman's portrait of the artist as a young man.

Every two years, this ancient and liquidy city is deluged by the art world, making it seem more unreal than it already is.

Every two years, Venice, Italy, is deluged by the art world, making it seem more unreal than it already is.

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