On International Museum Day, 18th May, a range of programmes, backed by Unesco, will unfold across more than 30 countries across Europe to bring awareness to the plight of museums and entertain.

An unexpected highlight of Cannes Film Festival 2013 has been served up in the form of the debut film by Italian directors Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, whose visually arresting tale of modern love is told through actions rather than words. Here's more.

With Cannes underway, Mood Swings is thinking about those of us who will be attending with the sole intention of strutting their stuff. Here are 3 songs to make sure you do it in style.

What should you wear on your wedding day? Should the groom see the bride or not? Do you know what bouquet means in Italy? All the Italian wedding traditions you should know before getting married…

More than 100 Countries visited, a lifetime dedicated to represent people around the world in the wildest location, Sebastião Salgado is a dedicated photographer on an unstoppable search for beauty.

With Steven Spielberg as the Jury President of this year’s 66th Cannes Film Festival, Swide are looking at the films that are big in terms of theme, action or actors

Vesak Day, otherwise known as Siddhartha Gautam’s (Buddha) birthday is celebrated differently in different Asian countries. Here are how some of the most prominent Buddhist countries celebrate this day.

What’s the problem? There is nothing worse than having to deal with someone invading your personal space, especially when there is no escape, and that’s the problem that this week’s guy is facing.

Swide’s Sicilian Girl is celebrating Spring with her friends and scouring the sights of Sicily’s towns, collecting the perfect postcards to share with us.

The bra is inexorably linked to the social history of women as much as its contents are linked to female anatomy. The brassieres’ development is a benchmark of the social relevance of women throughout history.

The Italians’ love of their mother is well known and manifest in the thousands of different Madonnas that are adored up and down the Italian peninsula. However, the she-wolf of Rome evinces mother idolatry that predates the Christian era.

The trials that mother’s go through, raising their children, is the labour of love. But while we are celebrating our loved ones, let’s take a moment to think about the mothers who like to do things on the wild side.