A deadly 6.2-magnitude earthquake struck central Italy in the Apennine mountains, about 100 miles northeast of Rome, on 24 August 2016, killing at least 293 people and trapping many others under debris.

World leaders visit Expo Milano 2015 Capi di stato in visita a Expo Milano 2015

A man on trial for fraudulent bankruptcy, Claudio Giardiello, opened fire in Milan's courthouse, killing his lawyer, a co-defendant and a judge before being arrested by the police.

Frieze art fair 2014 opens in London

The largest exhibition on Leonardo ever mounted in Italy opens in Milan, Italy on 16 April 2015 at Palazzo Reale. La straordinaria mostra che inaugura il 15 aprile 2015, giorno dell’anniversario della nascita di Leonardo - nato a Vinci il 15 aprile 1452 - e che apre al pubblico a ridosso di Expo Milano 2015 dal 16 aprile a Palazzo Reale, è la più grande e importante esposizione dedicata a Leonardo mai realizzata in Italia.

Tony Cragg exhibition opens on the terrace of Duomo di Milano in Milan, Italy.

The new spaces of Fondazione Prada open in Milan, Italy I nuovi spazi della Fondazione Prada aprono a Milano.

No Expo and mayday protests in Milan turn violent. Scontri durante la manifestazione del 1 Maggio di gruppi antagonisti No Expo e black bloc a Milano

Mudec, Museo delle Culture by British architect David Chipperfield opens in Milan, Italy.

People gather this morning in Piazza Duomo, Milan to get a rare glimpse of the solar eclipse. Experts have warned people not to look directly at the phenomenon.

Photography gallery of Santa Maria del Sacro Monte, Varese, Italy. The Sacro Monte di Varese is one of the nine sacred mountains in the Italian regions of Lombardy and Piedmont which were inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 2003.

Bergamo, Italy

3d Printing and Augmented reality pictures

Innorobo 2014, the 4th international trade show on service robotics in Lyon, France.

ZSL London Zoo’s annual animal weigh-in. From big cats to tiny frogs, keepers spend hours each year recording every animal’s vital statistics, enabling them to keep a close check on their overall well-being.

Images are on sale on Rex Features, Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Barcroft Media. London, UK - 29 January 2013: folding bikes are assembled in the Brompton Bicycle factory in South West London. The company was founded in 1976 by Andrew Ritchie and is one of only two major frame manufacturers still based in the UK. Today, Bromptons are sold in 42 export markets.

Dress rehearsal of Quidam at the Royal Albert Hall. (available only for editorial coverage of the Production)

London, UK - 23 July 2012: Hackney Wick gets prepared for the Olympics. The area, once a major manufacturing center in the UK, is now a mix of old warehouses converted into artist's studio and industrial yards attracting now both tourists and Olympic staff members. Images available for sale on Alamy and Demotix.

A day out in Manchester

London, UK - 15 June 2012: Carnival of Dirt. More than 30 activist groups from London and around the world have come together to highlight the alleged illicit deeds of mining and extraction companies. Images available for sale here, on Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis

Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt , Mayor of London Boris Johnson and LOCOG Chair Sebastian Coe during the final press conference of the Olympic Games to discuss the success of London 2012. Images available for sale on Alamy and Demotix.

London, UK - 20 July 2012: London's Muslim community celebrates the first day of Ramadan in the East London Mosque, the largest in Britain. Images available for sale on Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis.

Manchester, UK - 4 August 2012: Visitors and artists at the Manchester Tattoo Show 2012, one of the most popular conventions of the UK tattoo community. Images available for sale on Alamy, Demotix

LONDON, UK - 21st June 2012: Bloc Party perform live at Koko Club. Bloc Party are a British indie rock band, composed of Kele Okereke, Russell Lissack, Gordon Moakes, and Matt Tong. Images on sale here or through Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis

Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi visits Downing Street, Lancaster House and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London

Terento, Sudtirol - October 7, 2011: Traditional alpine animals transhumance. Terento, Alto Adige - 7 ottobre 2011: Festa della transumanza.

Artist Simon Fujiwara works on his terracotta-dyed life sized plaster casts. His work Rebekkah, comprising 100 terracotta-dyed life sized plaster casts of a 16-year-old girl who took part in the 2011 London riots, goes on display at the Contemporary Art Society until 29 March.

Notting Hill Carnival 2012 in London. Images availble for sale on Alamy, Demotix and Corbis.

LONDON, UK - 12th June 2012: HE Mahamadou Issoufou, President of the Republic of Niger, addresses the audience during the 'Niger's Growing Regional and International Importance' conference at Chatham House. Images are available for sale here, on Alamy.com and Demotix.com

London, UK - 4 January 2012: Cirque du Soleil Kooza dress rehearsal at the Royal Albert Hall. Since its premiere in April of 2007, KOOZA has captivated close to four million spectators in North America and Japan. London will be the first destination of the KOOZA European tour starting the 5th of January. Written and directed by David Shiner, KOOZA is a return to the origins of Cirque du Soleil combining two circus traditions - acrobatic performance and the art of clowning. KOOZA highlights the physical demands of human performance in all its splendor and fragility, presented in a colorful mélange that emphasizes bold slapstick humor.

On the morning before Passover, members of the Jewish Community of Stamford Hill burn all the chametz (leavened products) during the bi'ur ceremony

Pictures of the Surface Design Show 2014 at the Business Design Centre in London, the only UK show focused solely on cutting edge and innovative materials, Surfaces for Architects and Interior designers

Massimo Volume live @ Mi Ami 2011. Circolo Magnolia. 10 giugno 2011. MiAmi 2011: il festival milanese dedicato alle espressioni più creative di gruppi e cantautori italiani. Dal 10 al 13 giugno, decine di live, reading e djset al Circolo Magnolia di Milano. MiAmi 2011: The music festival dedicated to the most creative expressions of italian rock bands and songwriters. From 10th to 14th of June, tens of concerts, readings and djsets at Circolo Magnolia in Milan.

London, UK - 28 April 2013: celebrities and guests pose for pictures on arrival to the Olivier Awards at the Royal Opera House in London

Sigur Rós perform live at Academy Brixton in London Images available on Barcroft Media, Alamy, Demotix.

LONDON, UK - 19 May 2012: participants at the Say No To NATO protest called by STWC and CND in front of the US embassy in Grosvenor Square. The protest is held one day before the NATO summit in Chicago to discuss the alliance's global military reach. Images available for sale here or through Alamy (www.alamy.com) and Corbis (www.corbisimages.com)

LONDON, UK - 18th May 2012: Protesters in front of Buckingham Palace denouncing the presence of the King of Bahrain and other country leaders in visit at Buckingham Palace for the Queen's Jubilee. Images available for sale here or through Alamy (www.alamy.com)

Images available for sale exclusively on Rex Features at this link: http://tinyurl.com/a3xe6gq. London, UK - 5 February 2013: press preview of the 'Ice Age Art - Arrival of the modern mind' exhibition at The British Museum in London. The exhibition, curated by Jill Cook, opens in London on the 7th of February and presents masterpieces of Ice Age sculpture, ceramics, drawing and personal ornaments, created over 20,000 years ago.

LNRipley live @ Mi Ami 2011. Circolo Magnolia. 11 Giugno 2011. MiAmi 2011: il festival milanese dedicato alle espressioni più creative di gruppi e cantautori italiani. Dal 10 al 13 giugno, decine di live, reading e djset al Circolo Magnolia di Milano.

London, UK - 20 January 2013: Kendrick Lamar performs live at Hammersmith Apollo. These images can be quickly and easily purchased from some of the major international stock agencies: Alamy Images, following this link: http://tinyurl.com/bhjglvo Demotix, following this link: http://tinyurl.com/aembw2g Barcroft, following this link: http://tinyurl.com/b5n4s3y

World Pride 2012 procession runs in central London. Images available for sale here, on Alamy and Demotix

ZSL London Zoo's brand new Sumatran tiger enclosure will be given the royal seal of approval on Wednesday 20 March, when it is officially opened by HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Tiger Territory, a £3.6m project, is home to Jae Jae and Melati, Europe's most genetically important pair of Sumatran tigers who were matched by the global breeding programme for the critically endangered species. With high hopes for breeding resting on the pair, their cubs would be the first to be born at ZSL London Zoo for more than 15 years. And in what keepers are hoping is a prophetic twist of fate, tigress Melati is the granddaughter of the Zoo's last tiger cub, Hari. Representing a wild population of just 300 individuals, Jae Jae and Melati travelled more than 14,000 miles from opposite ends of the earth to be paired at Tiger Territory. The flagship exhibit will now be the base for ZSL's studbook-holders to match-make Sumatran tigers around the world. The Zoo's biggest investment since Gorilla Kingdom in 2007, Tiger Territory has been designed by ZSL's tiger keepers and conservationists to be the ultimate big-cat habitat. Five times the size of the previous exhibit, with towering trees and a custom-built swimming pool, Tiger Territory will see Jae Jae and Melati flexing every muscle in the 27,000sqft enclosure (2,500sqm) and demonstrating just why tigers continually rank as the world's most popular animal. Giving millions of zoo visitors the chance to come face-to-face with these incredible animals and providing a central hub for ZSL's worldwide tiger conservation work, Tiger Territory will be London's must-see when it opens to the public on Friday 22 March 2013.

London, UK - 9 August 2012: Press Conference 'Delivering a lasting legacy from the London 2012 Games' at the London Media Centre with Mayor Boris Johnson, Daniel Moylan, Chairman of the London Legacy Development Corporation, Gavin Poole, CEO of iCITY, John Burton, Director of Westfield London, Stuart Corbyn, Chairman of Qatari Diar Delancey East Village and Peter Redfern, CEO of Taylor Wimpey, the developer building the first phase of new housing in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.

London, UK - 1 october 2012: Turner Prize 2012 press preview at the Tate Britain. The exhibition features work by four shortlisted artists: Spartacus Chetwynd, Luke Fowler, Paul Noble and Elizabeth Price. The winner of the prize will be announced during a live broadcast of the award ceremony on Channel 4 on the evening of Monday 3 December 2012. The exhibition is open from 2 October 2012 to 6 January 2012. Images are available for sale here, on Barcroft Media, Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis.

London, UK - 21 July 2012: Team GB Olympic discus thrower Abdulazeez Buhari feeds more than 5000 fasting Muslim and non-Muslim visitors at the Ramadan Iftar 2012 celebrations hosted at the Islamic Cultural Centre (ICC) in Regents Park. Images are available for sale on Alamy and Demotix

Pictures of the annual animal stocktake at ZSL London Zoo. The compulsory count is required as part of ZSL London Zoo’s zoo license and the results are logged into the International Species Information System (ISIS), where the data is shared with zoos around the world and used to manage the international breeding programmes for endangered animals.

The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge give birth to a Prince George at St Mary's Hospital in London.

Italian's Prime Minister Enrico Letta visits London

Tate Britain unveils the new work by Phyllida Barlow entitled 'dock'. Phyllida Barlow has worked with everyday materials to create large sculptural installations and colourful three-dimensional collages.

Preview of 'The View from the Shard', opening to the general public on the 1st of February and offering an unrivalled view on the city of London.

Kiev National Opera Theatre, Ukraine. Cinderella by Puccini, behind the scenes.

Smart watches, wristbands and more Wearable Devices at the Wearable Technology Conference today in London.

Casa a due altezze Designers: Francesca Ristuccia and Cristian Catania

London, UK - 11 October 2012: The Frieze Art Fair 2012, London's big annual art fair that takes place in Regent's Park and sells the works by more than 1,000 of the world's leading artists, represented by some 170 international galleries.

London, UK - 12 April 2013: Impressionist and contemporary masterworks will go on sale at Sotheby's New York in May 2013. The Blockbuster sales at include works by Richter, Modigliani, Picasso, Rodin, Bacon, Cezanne.

London,UK - 22 April 2013: Counting Crows perform live at Hammersmith Apollo

Images for sale on Alamy, Barcroft Media and Demotix. London, UK - 13 February 2013: at the 'The Bride and the Bachelors - Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns' exhibition that opens to the public on 14 February and runs until 9 June 2013 at Barbican. It is the first exhibition to explore Marcel Duchamp's impact on four great modern artists - composer John Cage, choreographer Merce Cunningham and visual artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

London Cru is the first urban winery in London by Roberson wine founder Cliff Roberson and investor Will Tomlinson. The first London Cru wine bottles are expected to go on sale next summer with a "European Community Wine" label.

London, UK - 5th April 2013 - Ligabue performs live at Royal Albert Hall. High quality fine art limited edition prints are available for delivering worldwide. Contact me on pcruciatti@gmail.com

Hundreds of fascist sympathiser gather each year in Predappio, where Mussolini was born, to commemorate Mussolini’s birth, death and the March of Rome.

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The Hindu community celebrates Swaminarayan Jayanti at Neasden Temple in London, to mark the manifestation on earth of Bhagwan Swaminarayan in 1781.

Kiev, January 18, 2012: four activists occupied the balcony FEMEN residence of the Ambassador of India in Ukraine. Activists unfurled a banner on the balcony "We're not prostitutes," shouting "Delhi, close their brothels," "The Ukrainians are not prostitutes!" and "We demand an apology." The four activists were arrested and taken to the police station. Images are available on sale both here and on Alamy (www.alamy.com) Kiev, 18 gennaio 2012: quattro attiviste del gruppo ucraino FEMEN occupano il balcone della residenza dell'ambasciatore indiano a Kiev, in Ucraina. Le attiviste mostrano cartelli su cui è scritto "Non siamo prostitute" e "L'Ucraina non è un bordello". Immagini disponibili alla vendita qui o su Alamy (www.alamy.com)

London, UK - 17 January 2013: London Bike show 2013 is underway at Excel. Images are available for sale on Alamy, Demotix and Barcroft Media.

'Vogue' Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour, fashion designer Tom Ford, and White House senior adviser David Plouffe host fundraising dinner in London for President Barack Obama's 2012 re-election bid.Images are available on sale on Alamy, Demotix

London, UK - 18 October 2012: Hot Chip perform live at O2 Academy Brixton following the release of their new album 'In Our Heads'. Images available for sale on Barcroft Media, Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis.

HGV/cycle safety event at City Hall attended by construction and transport trade associations, property developers, contractors and vehicle manufacturers.

Tens of thousands of Sikhs gather in Southall, also known as 'Little India', to celebrate Nagar Kirtan.

Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London

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London, UK - 13 July 2012: Royal Navy's biggest ship HMS Ocean sails up Thames towards Greenwich where it will be deployed as part of the security plan for the Olympic Games. Images available for sale also on Alamy and Demotix

Images are available for sale on Alamy, Barcroft media and Demotix. London, UK - 12 February 2013: The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson joins Xavier Rolet, CEO of London Stock Exchange Group to open the trading day, to encourage more science and technology companies to list in the capital.

London, UK - 12 March 2013: the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre exhibition opens aboard MS Stubnitz in Wood Wharf and runs until the 12th of April. The exhibition offers the opportunity to visitors to press the buttons bringing to life these contemporary automata and triggering the small machines into action.

London, UK - 13 February 2013: Salif Keita performs live at Southbank Centre in London

London, UK - 5th July 2012: Renzo Piano's The Shard during the inaugural laser light show. European Union's tallest building fires light beams from the summit to 15 other landmarks across the city. Images available for sale here, on Alamy or Demotix

Images of the London Prepares test events at the Olympic park in Stratford, London available now for sale, here through Alamy, Corbis, Press Association and Demotix. The London Prepares series was the official London 2012 sports testing programme. As well as allowing the London 2012 Organising Committee to test vital areas of operation ahead of the 2012 Games, the series featured world-class sporting events - bringing top athletes to London's iconic existing venues and brand new venues in the Olympic Park.

Fotografie in alta risoluzione disponibili alla vendita del Lago Maggiore, una delle principali mete turistiche italiane. Include immagini di Stresa, Baveno, Isola dei Pescatori, Isola Bella e Feriolo. giorno e notte. High resolution photographs, available for sale, of Lake Maggiore, one of Italy's top travel destinations and famous for its beautiful and idyllic landscapes. These includes shots of Stresa, Baveno, Isola dei pescatori, Isola Bella and Feriolo. Both daytime and night shots.

Esperanza Spalding performs live at the Koko Club in London on 28th May 2012: . Esperanza is a grammy-award winner bassist, vocalist and composer from Portland, Oregon and begun her solo artist career in 2008. High quality fine art limited prints of the concert are available for delivering worldwide. Contact me on pcruciatti@gmail.com to know more.

London, UK - 26 October 2012: Comic Con 2012 - MCM Expo - gets underway at Excel where book fans, videogame lovers, anime devotees, cosplay wearers gather every year

Pictures of revellers during the annual parade at the Notting Hill Carnival 2013.

Members of the Jewish community of Stamford Hill bring cutlery, pots, pans and dishes to kosher in boiling water in preparation for Passover. According to the Torah, as it is forbidden to eat chametz (leavened food) during Passover, utensils which have come into contact with chametz, can be immersed in boiling water (hagalat keilim) to purge them of any traces of chametz that may have accumulated during the year.

London, UK - 25 March 2013: Around 400 live tropical butterflies fill the butterfly house of Sensational Butterflies, the new outdoor exhibition on the east lawn of the Natural History Museum.

LONDON, UK - 30th May 2012: WikiLeaks CEO Julian Assange loses his appeal to avoid extradition to Sweden for sex crime allegations at the UK Supreme Court in central London. Images available for sale here or Alamy (www.alamy.com), Corbis (www.corbisimages.com) and Demotix.

Lake District, Cumbria, UK

LONDON, UK - 19 May 2012: RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2012. Images available for sale here or through Alamy (www.alamy.com) and Corbis (www.corbisimages.com)

London, UK - 9 October 2012: Chris Isaak performs live at HMV Hammersmith Apollo as part of his 'Beyond the sun' tour. Images available for sale on Alamy, Barcroft Media, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis.

Images are for sale on Alamy, Barcroft Media, Demotix. London, UK - 12 February 2013: the 16th Parliamentary Pancake Race takes place next to the Houses of Parliament on Shrove Tuesday raising money for the charity Rehab. Politicians and MPs toss pancakes into the air and catch them in the pan whilst running.The team of MPs has won the event this year.

Verdena live @ Mi Ami 2011. Circolo Magnolia. 12 giugno 2011. MiAmi 2011: il festival milanese dedicato alle espressioni più creative di gruppi e cantautori italiani. Dal 10 al 13 giugno, decine di live, reading e djset al Circolo Magnolia di Milano. MiAmi 2011: The music festival dedicated to the most creative expressions of italian rock bands and songwriters. From 10th to 14th of June, tens of concerts, readings and djsets at Circolo Magnolia in Milan.

gotye performs live at Hammersmith Apollo in London. Images are available throught Alamy, Barcroft Media, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis.

Thousands of protesters join the TUC-organised march 'A future that works' against austerity cuts in central London. Images available for sale on Barcroft Media, Alamy, Demotix, Press Association and Corbis

Dressed in fancy clothes young men from the Orthodox Jewish community of Stamford Hill celebrate the festivity of Purim, dancing and singing in the streets at the sound of Yiddish music and visiting wealthy businessmen collecting for their charity

London, UK - 18 April 2013: A new piece of public art, Cloud: Meteoros by Lucy Orta, is unveiled above the Grand Terrace at St Pancras International station.

London, UK - 18 January 2013: Victoria Park gets covered in snow as UK faces severe weather. Images are available for sale on Alamy, Barcroft Media, Demotix, Corbis

English Defence League EDL leaders Tommy Robinson and Kevin Carroll are arrested trying to march through London borough of Tower Hamlets

Families of the Jewish Community of Stamford Hill searched for chametz (leavened bread products) in their houses on the night before the annual Passover. According to the Torah (Exod. 12:15) no chametz (leavened bread products of any kind) may be eaten during Passover. On the night before Passover, a final "ceremonial search" for chametz is performed by candlelight by the entire family. The search is traditionally conducted with a beeswax candle, a feather, a wooden spoon and a bag for collecting any chametz found. These chametz will be joined with all the remaining leavened products in the house and burned the next morning.

Images are available for sale on Alamy, Barcroft Media, Demotix and Corbis. London, UK - 18 February 2013: 'Lichtenstein: A Retrospective' exhibition opens at Tate Modern in London on the 21st of February. The exhibition is the first major Lichtenstein retrospective for twenty years, bringing together over 125 of the artist's most definitive paintings and sculptures. Built on new research and scholarship, the exhibition reassesses Lichtenstein's work and his enduring legacy.