If you missed it .... from the Oscars, to the murals for Zaki, to the 'hot ice' in Antarctica

Here are some of the news of the week that aroused interest, made people discuss or, simply, aroused curiosity

The week began with the glamor of Sunday's Los Angeles evening where the 92nd Oscar was staged at the Dolby Theater. Magic night for Bong Joon Ho who with the film Parasite has broken 92 years of "glass ceiling" in Hollywood, winning the statuette for the best film and also the one for the best foreign film. Red carpet night, also this year with some controversy, after the naturalized Israeli Israeli actress Natalie Portman wore a hood on which the names of all the directors snubbed by the Oscars were embroidered. Rose McGowan did not like her move: the American actress, Harvey Weinstein's accuser and at the forefront of the #MeToo movement accused her colleague of being "a hypocrite" who does not translate what she preaches on the red carpet into facts.

Accusations, offenses and intimidations were also discussed on national soil for the case of Maty Fall Diba, an 18-year-old Italian-Senegalese model that Vogue Italia has chosen to put on the cover. Daniele Beschin, group leader of the League in Arzignano and provincial coordinator of Forza Nuova argued with the mayor of Chiampo, Matteo Macilotti proud of the choice of the magazine, Maty in fact lives in Chiampo, saying that in his case we cannot speak of Italian beauty because "only a white man can be Italian". The day after his statements, the councilor was expelled from the League.

On the same day, a 20-year-old from Palermo, Kande Boubacar from Senegal, was attacked downtown by a group of teenagers who punched him in the face, shouting "Negro di m ..., get out of here." boy posted his photo on Facebook after the attack and thanking those who had helped him to flee the attackers, he recalled that, after all, "Palermo is a beautiful city".

From the ethereal world of social networks to the concrete walls of Rome, the street artist Laika also took care of another young man and wanted to send a message. The boy is Patrick Zaki, an Egyptian student in Bologna for a master's degree who was arrested on his return to his country. Laika made a mural on the street where the Egyptian embassy is located. It portrays Patrik and Giulio Regeni. The Italian researcher embraces Zaki, the two smile. The balloon on Giulio's head reads: "This time everything will be fine".

The whole world hopes that the evolution of the coronavirus-related health emergency, which now has a name (SARS-CoV-2) and a face, will also go well. The American Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases has published five of its images obtained with the electron microscope. It is the most detailed portrait of the coronavirus ever obtained.

From the infinitely small to the vastness of the ice in Antarctica, this week shocked the news of the record heat that allowed an iceberg of over 300 square kilometers, almost as big as Malta, to detach itself from the Pine Island glacier. When the iceberg broke off in Antarctica, 20.7 degrees were recorded.