Before her passing, she was the oldest woman in Italy’s Calabria region, which has a population of about 1.84m. READ MORE:'Sneeze and a bite' uncovered aggressive cancer for man, 26 READ MORE ...

Women have just been given the vote in Italy, but in Calabria, a conservative rural region in Southern Italy, men still rule the roost. An unmarried single mother, Marta, who is deemed to have ...

The professionalism of the Cuban doctors working in Calabria today is recognised by the health authorities of this southern ...