AP. After a start delayed by a failing breeze, Damiani Italia Challenge beat Luna Rossa by 1 minute, 40 seconds in an all-Italian race on Sunday. It is its first win in Gold Fleet racing among the top six teams in the regatta. (Read the article)

ANSA. "Italy against Brazil is never really a friendly match", 1982 World Cup hero Paolo Rossi said on the eve of the match between the two most successful teams in world soccer. (Read the article)

ANSA. The Dalai Lama on Monday became an honorary citizen of Rome and Tibet's spiritual leader took advantage of the occasion to renew his commitment to non-violence. (Read the article)

REUTERS. Fashion company IT Holding (ITH.MI) said on Monday it will file for extraordinary administration for its Ittierre unit which distributes products for designers Cavalli and Versace -- the first Italian listed company to take such steps since the global crisis started. (Read the article)

msnbc. A giant carnival figure representing US President Barack Obama is carried in a decorated float during the annual parade of the Viareggio carnival on February 8, 2009. (Read the article)

New York Post. Amanda Knox. As trial gets underway in Perugia, Italy, this week, a new image has eclipsed the first: that of an incredibly unlucky college coed caught up in a sensational crime of which she may be innocent. (Read the article by Stephanie Cohen)

THE INDEPENDENT. Two thousand years of culinary tradition are coming to an end in the Italian capital, as supermarket competition and rising costs are driving its famous neighbourhood delicatessens out of business. (Read the article by Peter Popham)

New York Times. ....But can paranoia and xenophobism - gastronomic racism, as it’s called here
(what a term!) — really keep food from changing? Is Italian food so sacred that it must be “preserved” (and therefore die)? ( Read the article by Mark Bittman)

New York Times. An Iraqi journalist working for The New York Times in Falluja was one of the first people to meet Luca Marchio, the Italian tourist who turned up unexpectedly in a public bus at the entrance to the city on Friday on the third - and soon to be abruptly-truncated - leg of his tourist trail around Iraq. (Read the article)