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WASHINGTON POST. President Barack Obama is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the National Italian American Foundation awards gala this week. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi (puh-LOH’-see), Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (ahl-EE’-toh) and former FBI Director Louis Freeh (LOO’-ee free) are among the more famous Italian-Americans expected to attend. (Read the article)
THE FINANCIAL TIMES. The chief executive will be unable to avoid questions about his plans for the lossmaking historical heart of its operations: Italy, where Fiat has too many plants serving a stagnant European market in which it has been shedding sales and share. (Read the article)
THE SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS. In the last decade, California producers have mounted a major new effort to bring back the domestic olive oil industry, planting thousands of acres, building new mills and producing oils that can be fresher, purer and cheaper than all but the finest imports. (Read the article by Julia Moskin)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. New York has a bounty of celebrated chefs who specialize in elegant iterations of Italian food. And yet it is Emilio’s Ballato, a small, narrow, sleepily old-school NoLIta restaurant, that has become a de facto dining room for some of the most famous people in the city, especially musicians. (Read the article by Jeff Gordinier)
AFP. The wall, built with the Roman "opus incertum" technique using irregularly shaped stones and concrete, collapsed on a stretch of the ancient city's external walls, near the Porta di Nola, in an area open to the public. (Read the article)
EW.COM. As the Jersey Shore cast wrapped its drunken scream-filled vacation in Italy, the show’s ratings concluded lower than the previous season for the first time. (Read the article)e
SALON. Jovanotti might be the biggest pop star in Italy, a joyous singer with a profound social conscience. (Read the article)
THE WALL STREET. The choice Thursday of Ignazio Visco, 61 years old, currently the Bank of Italy's deputy director general, is unlikely to alter the course of the ECB's monetary policy or its role in the debt crisis, analysts say. Rather the appointment, which will give Italy the biggest representation of any euro country on the ECB, resurrects a thorny political question: Does nationality matter when it comes to ECB positions, and how much influence should governments have in doling out its top posts? (Read the article)
ANSA. Prada looks set to unleash Luna Rossa on the America's Cup again. The Italian fashion house sponsored the yacht team in sailing's most prestigious contest in 2000, 2003 and 2007. (Read the article)
CORRIERE DELLA SERA. For many years, Muammar and his very spoilt progeny were a fixture in Italian life, from the purchase of Fiat shares when the car manufacturer was on its uppers to the arrival of his son Saadi, who had had got it into his head that, having served as striker, captain and chairman of the Al Ittihad club, he wanted to play – at his own expense – in “the most beautiful championship in the world”. (Read the article)