Venice was underwater on Tuesday as heavy rain ... “The situation is terrible, we are under water,” said Carlo Alberto Tesserin, responsible for managing Saint Mark's Basilica, adding that ...

I made a few photographs of the reflections, but I was there to investigate the only unknown: Would Venice vanish underwater? Those reflections held no clues. Late one night the phone rang in my ...

Venice's St Mark's Square was closed on Sunday ... A massive infrastructure project called MOSE has been under way since 2003 to protect the city, but the multi-billion euro project has been ...