The New York TImes. Speaking a day after the White House pushed out the chairman of G.M., Mr. Obama said Chrysler has been instructed to form a partnership with the Italian automaker Fiat within 30 days as conditions for receiving another much-needed round of government aid. (Read the article)

ANSA. A new exhibition here seeks to end a controversy that has dogged a renowned image by one of the world's first photojournalists, Robert Capa, for over 30 years. (Read the article)

ANSA.  Palermo Chairman Maurizio Zamparini vowed Monday to keep the Mafia out of the Serie A club's business. ''The Mafia won't get its hands on the club while I'm around,'' said Zamparini, a tough-talking boss with a reputation for firing coaches. (Read the article)

ANSA. An Italian primary school teacher is in hot water after a sex education class in which she openly discussed whips, handcuff ...(Read the article)

THE BOSTON HERALD. Palminteri, 56, is back on stage doing “A Bronx Tale” in a touring production that arrives Tuesday at the Colonial Theatre. “It just exploded when I first did it,” Palminteri said of his play. “It became the hottest property in Hollywood since ‘Rocky.’ It was this insane thing.” (Read the article by Jenna Scherer)

ANSA. he foreign and university research ministries on Monday announced the first commercial gains for a ground-breaking Italian satellite system for Earth observation and disaster prevention. (Read the article)

Xinhua. Many Italians chose to keep their houses unlit from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday in the Earth Hour relay, a global energy-saving campaign organized by the World Wildlife Fund. (Read the article by Silvia Marchetti)

REUTERS. Back in 2006, a group of four Turin youths insulted and physically abused a young classmate with Down syndrome so severely that the terrified boy soiled his pants. One of the four filmed 191 seconds of the unsettling episode and uploaded it to Google Video, where it remained for about two months before the company finally pulled it. (Read the article)

The New York Times. The explorer Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza is the subject of a show at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò. It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza. (Read the article by Edward Rothstein)