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THE BOSTON GLOBE. Germany argued at the United Nations' highest court that Italian courts have no right to order it to pay compensation to Nazi war victims, saying international law and peace treaties would be jeopardized if national courts had the power to override them. (Read the article by Arthur Max)
NEWSWEEK. Sozzani, 61, is known for being a provocateur. In the 23 years she has been at the helm of Italian Vogue, she has operated the magazine as a laboratory for wild and often hilarious imagery that pokes at her own industry—a wry take you would seldom find in more earnest American fashion magazines. (Read the article by Jacob Bernstein)
FOX NEWS. While Little Italy in downtown Manhattan has shrunk to barely two and a half blocks, what some call the "Real Little Italy" in the Belmont section of the Bronx is thriving, and it's as authentic as ever. Visitors will readily find dozens of Italian restaurants, bakeries, butchers and produce stands that still sell all the goodies my grandfather remembers from growing up in the Bronx. (Read the article)
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Italian industrial output fell much more than expected in July due to the sharpest contraction of consumer-goods production in more than two years. Industrial output in the euro zone's third-largest economy fell 0.7% from June on a seasonally adjusted basis, well below the forecast of a modest 0.1% drop predicted by 10 economists polled by Dow Jones Newswires. (Read the article by Christopher Emsden and Liam Moloney)
ABC NEWS. "Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane" (W.W. Norton), by Andrew Graham-Dixon: More than 400 years after his death, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio is more popular than ever. Long lines form outside exhibitions of his art, and by one scholar's count, he's been written about more in recent decades than his namesake, Michelangelo Buonarroti. (Read the article by Ann Levin)
ANSA. Italy has landed a top United Nations event to be hosted next fall in Naples. Known as the premier conference on cities, The World Urban Forum will take place from September 1-7 and is expected to draw up to 20,000 guests including world leaders, statesmen, businessmen and academics. (Read the article)
ANSA. Recalling the days before he was famous, iconic Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio once said that the great advantage of first films is the director's anonymity. "You're nobody and you have no history," he said. "You have the freedom to risk everything". (Read the article)
TIME. It's been a hot summer for Italy's politicians. First, many of them had to postpone their holidays to try to calm a skittish bond market with a €50 billion ($70 billion) austerity plan. Then the markets continued to buck and kick, forcing the government to propose ever more controversial cuts and taxes. (Read the article by Stephan Faris)
THE WASHINGTON TIMES. On this solemn anniversary, New York City will host a number of events to remember 9/11 and commemorate the 2,983 people who died on that day, one decade ago. (Read the article)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Alongside common local last names like Ferrari and Galli, the telephone directories for the province of Cremona have been registering an increasingly present surname: Singh. For the past 20 years, Indian immigrants from Punjab have been settling in Italy’s agricultural heartland to work primarily on farms. (Read the article by Elisabetta Povoledo).