THE NEW YORK TIMES. The Brera Gallery, the least known of all Italy’s great city museums even though it contains an array of masterpieces that would be the pride of any institution in the world, is this year celebrating its 200th anniversary with a series of special study exhibitions designed to revisit its (sometimes checkered) history and highlight its remarkable treasures  (Read the article)

THE NEW YORK TIMES. Had heard Spadaro was a small restaurant (and with only 38 seats, it is), so when we got stuck in traffic and were late for a Saturday reservation, I called with some trepidation.Don’t worry about it, my love,” said Rina Spadaro... (Read the article)

GUARDIAN. alian authorities took into custody on Saturday a top boss from the Gambino Mafia clan who was deported from the United States after spending more than two decades in jail for drug trafficking.  (Read the article)

CORRIERE DELLA SERA.  Four new cases of influenza A/H1N1 have been reported. All four are students at secondary schools in Rome. The junior health minister, Ferruccio Fazio, ordered the immediate closure of the two schools for a week as a precautionary measure. The cases, which were confirmed on Thursday, involve students from the Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II and the Dante Alighieri secondary school. (Read the article)

CORRIERE DELLA SERA. Rumours had been going round Milan for the past couple of weeks and concern was mounting. “Giorgio Armani is ill”. Inferences, hypotheses and suppositions abounded. But yesterday, the fashion designer laid the conjectures to rest, confirming some and denying others. Giorgio Armani had hepatitis due to intoxication but he is better now. (Read the article)

FOX NEWS. Producer Herman Chanowitz  finds himself in the Eternal City, also known as Rome, in November of 2008. He recounts us the experiences he had there while filming a new episode of his series  "War Stories with Oliver North". The episode was about Benito Mussolini's rise and fall and Italy's involvement in World War II. Also, how the Allied Forces battled back the Germans in some of the most brutal fighting of the war. "It was my first time in this historic country and I was thrilled that I could be there to help tell the stories of such brave and heroic men" (Read the article by Kelly Guernica)

THE INDIPENDENT. Supergrass says politicians negotiated with gangs even as judges were bombed. Giovanni Brusca, the man who killed the first of those judges, Giovanni Falcone, by detonating a huge bomb under the Palermo airport motorway, told a heavily-guarded "bunker court" inside Rome's Rebbibia jail that the Italian authorities were secretly trying to cut a deal with Salvatore "Toto" Riina, the capo di capi of Cosa Nostra at the time and the architect of the atrocities. (Read the article)

ANSA. One of Italy's most notorious eyesores, a huge unfinished hotel complex on a Ligurian island, disappeared Friday after decades of campaigning by environmentalists. Some 50 kg of dynamite was used to bring down the seven-floor building, known as the Scheletrone ('big skeleton'), overlooking a beach on the island of Palmaria, which forms part of the region's Cinque Terre UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Read the article)

ANSA. A 'lost' painting by Italian Futurist star Mario Sironi has turned up at an auction in Prato where its opening bid has been set at 200,000-250,000 euros. (Read the article)