A preliminary cauldron has been lit by the Olympic flame at Italy’s presidential palace as the countdown to the Milan Cortina Winter Games approaches the two-months-to-go mark.

Details of the wedding in Venice between Amazon multi-billionaire Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez are sketchy, but there are some numbers that can be shared.

The one-year countdown to the Milan Cortina Olympic Games is on.

Italian officials in an Alpine resort town say 13 people are still unaccounted for and seven hikers were killed a day earlier by an avalanche of ice and stone unleashed when a massive piece of glacier broke off on a mountaintop.