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Models present creations by Cynthia Abila during the Lagos Fashion Week in 2018. Stakeholders who invest in fashion weeks do so to promote Nigeria’s fashion industry.  (Pius Utomi Ekpei)

More funding, less fashion weeks

Nigeria’s industry needs more support, particularly for new entrants in the business

The feast that is Florence

The feast that is Florence

The art in this beautiful city evokes a world of decadence and indulgence. And so does the cuisine.

Hunt is on for remains of possible Mona Lisa model

Hunt is on for remains of possible Mona Lisa model

Italian researchers will dig up bones in a Florence convent to try to identify the remains of a Renaissance woman long believed to be the Mona Lisa.

Sky falls in on the Azzuri

By tradition, the heavens beneath which Italy’s Azzuri train for a World Cup is of a blue as deep as the team’s shirts. But this campaign at the retreat in Coverciano on the edge…

New lead in hunt for lost Leonardo

Hopes of finding a long-lost work by Leonardo da Vinci have been fired by the discovery of a tiny cavity in a wall in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence. Leonardo is known to have…

Keeping David out of harm’s way

Michelangelo’s David had centuries of gunk picked out of every nook and cranny of his perfect marble body last year in honour of his 500th birthday. But it seems the statue will…

Man requests arrest to escape from mom

Fed up with living with his mother, a 26-year-old Italian got himself arrested on Wednesday by hurling a rock at a police car and smashing one of its windows, the Ansa news…

The problem with David

Michelangelo’s statue David may be clean in time for his 500th birthday this year, but experts are concerned that his left ankle may not be strong enough to keep him standing…