Tag: Florence

Six popular tourist spots in danger of being loved to death

The Philippines' most famous resort island Boracay re-opens Friday after a six-month clean-up intended to fix the damage done by unrestrained mass tourism. Here are...

Spanish tourist killed by falling stone fragment in Florence

FLORENCE: A Spanish man was killed on Thursday when a falling fragment of stone struck him in Florence’s Basilica of the Holy Cross, ambulance services...

Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by September 1

The asteroid was discovered in 1981 and is named Florence after the famed 19th-century founder of modern nursing, Florence Nightingale.