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ASNA. A nationwide police operation carried at dawn on Thursday netted 26 people accused of being involved in violent protests at a site for a new high-speed rail link in northern Italy in July. (Read the article)
ANSA. Distinguished Italian astrophysicist Franco Pacini, a pioneer in international research on pulsars, died Thursday aged 72. (Read the article)
WASHINGTON POST. Italy’s Olympic committee president has urged the government not to drop Rome’s bid for the 2020 Games amid concerns over the country’s financial crisis. (Read the article)
AFP. The chaos in the bowels of the shipwrecked Costa Concordia is the worst diver Fabio Paoletti has ever seen and the terror of navigating through an underwater labyrinth is hard to shake off. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. The inquiry into the wreck of the Concordia is now focusing on top Costa executives. The new line, laid down by Tuscany’s prosecutor general, looks like one the Grosseto public prosecutors will take into account. (Read the article)
ABC NEWS. Amanda Knox "loves Italy" and would like to go back to Perugia despite having spent four years in a prison there before a murder conviction was overturned last year, her lawyer said today. (Read the article)
ANSA. Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right People of Freedom (PdL) party will choose its candidate to be premier in next year's elections via primaries, Secretary Angelino Alfano has said. (Read the article)
ANSA. Pope Benedict XVI praised social media and the Internet on Tuesday for offering new platforms for spiritual connection to God. "Sites, applications and networks can help man pray and meditate," he said in his message for the 46th World Day of Social Communications. (Read the article)
ANSA. taly's junior labor minister said Tuesday that society should not tolerate university students who take many years to graduate. "We have to tell our youth that if you're 28 and you still haven't graduated, you're a loser," said Michel Martone at a meeting organized by the Region of Lazio. "If you decide to go to a technical college, that's great. What's important is doing something well". (Read the article)
NEW YORK TIMES. IF the meatball parmigiana hero were a Southern dish, scholars from Chapel Hill, N.C., to Tallahassee, Fla., would hold academic conferences every six months just to talk about it. (Read the article by Pete Wells)