NEW YORK TIMES. Mike Piazza seemed to take great pleasure in rolling his R’s behind home plate at Field 6. Clad in something like the Dodger blue of his younger days, he drew out his “Brrravos” as a parade of no-names — his pupils — swung through batting practice. Any one of them could have told Piazza that their uniforms were far from Dodger blue. (Read the article by Joshua Robinson)

AfP. A State Department official said Clinton and Foreign Minister Franco Frattini of Italy, which currently holds the presidency of the Group of Eight wealthy nations, backed those conditions during a meeting here Friday. (Read the article)

 ABS CBN NEWS. The British soccer star - who has been on loan to AC Milan from his current team Los Angeles Galaxy - is living in the "Ocean's Eleven" actor's plush home by Lake Como. Beckham is believed to be using the villa while Clooney - who recently visited refugee camps in Sudan's war-wracked Darfur region - is away working. The pair struck up a friendship after they were introduced by fashion designer Giorgio Armani at last year's New York Met Ball. (Read the Article)

NEW YORK TIMES. There’s more to Milan coffee than just Cova. In fact, a handful of grand old-school bars have been cranking out flawless cappuccinos on buttercup damask tablecloths for nearly a century. (Read the article by JJ Martin Ferdinando Scianna)

HERALD TRIBUNE. With soft shades of peach, apricot or powder pink, touched with blue, there was something sweetly appealing about Angela Missoni's exploration of the family heritage: knitting. (Read the article by Suzy Menkes)

LOS ANGELES TIMES. "Dynasty"-era sculpted jackets, strange millinery (black patent beanies cocked to the side) and dangling earrings combined to make Giorgio Armani's fall collection an '80s time warp in the worst way. (Read the article)

ANSA. Piero Angela, an Italian science journalist and television presenter said Friday he may have discovered a self-portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci as a young man in Da Vinci's Codex on the Flight of Birds. (Read the article)

ANSA.  The Italian cabinet unanimously approved a draft law to put a stop to wildcat transport sector strikes that frequently paralyse the country, greenlighting the notion of 'virtual' strikes (Read the article)

ANSA. Italian MPs are to get a long coffee break to make up for the increased time they'll have to spend in parliament to vote for themselves instead of getting others to do it for them. (Read the article)

BLOOMBERG. The collapse of IT Holding SpA, owner of the Gianfranco Ferre designer label, has sent ripples across Italy’sfashion industry, threatening to take with it a host of seamsters, fabric suppliers and other couture houses. (Read the article by Armorel Kenna and Chris Staiti)

OREGON LIVE. "In such entertainments as "The Godfather," "Goodfellas" and "The Sopranos," the Italian-American Mafia, or Cosa Nostra, is depicted as a strongly hierarchical institution governed not by the laws of society but by its own strict codes of ethics and conduct, including a strict delineation between insiders (that is to say, crooks) and civilians. As the cliches go, they only kill their own, they love their mothers, they dress well, they have courtly notions of respect, and so on (...)"