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AP. A convicted European drug trafficker dubbed the "Mafia's foreign minister" will be deported to Italy after his capture in Caracas in a joint operation by Venezuelan and Italian police, authorities said Tuesday. Salvatore Miceli was caught at a Caracas hotel on Saturday, Venezuelan police said. He will be deported to Italy "in the coming days," Justice Minister Tareck El Aissami told reporters. Miceli was one of Europe's top five drug traffickers, said Capt. Antonello Parasiliti of the Carabinieri police in Trapani, who led the Italian police operation to arrest Miceli in Venezuela. (Read the Article)
PCWORLD.COM The criminal trial of four senior Google executives in a court in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday was postponed until Sept. 29 because the translator failed to show up, Google said Tuesday. The executives are accused of defamation and violating the privacy rights of a boy with Down Syndrome who was filmed being bullied in 2006.(Read the Article)
DAILY NEWS. A Staten Island restaurant with no head chef and no set menu is replacing "Bon Appetit" with "Mamma Mia!". The 35-seat Enoteca Maria takes home cooking to a whole new level by bringing in genuine Italian grandmothers to cook for customers. Each night, one of eight nonnas ties on an apron, checks out the ingredients in the refrigerator and rustles up a down-to-earth meal. The women are from different regions of the pasta-loving nation who have no problem cooking restaurant-style after years of feeding big families. (Read the Article by Christina Boyle)
AP. An Italian court on Tuesday postponed the trial against four Google executives accused of defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused. (Read the article)
ANSA. Rome, June 23 - Italy's population edged over 60 million last year thanks to a hefty increase in immigrant numbers, statistics bureau Istat said Tuesday. (Read the article)
WEST HARTFORD NEWS. Dennis Barone, English professor, director of the American Studies program at St. Joseph College and the author of 14 books, was named the second West Hartford Poet Laureate in the town's history last week.
Out of seven nominations, he was selected by committee and will serve a two-year term. (Read the Article)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Until it implodes with preposterous plot manipulations, “The Narrows,” directed by François A. Velle, can be appreciated as the film equivalent of a reasonably palatable pasta dish concocted from a familiar recipe and served in a no-frills restaurant. Its eager-beaver protagonist, Mike Manadoro (Kevin Zegers), is an aspiring photographer from an Italian-American enclave in the Bay Ridge neighborhood of Brooklyn, and is torn between making good money transporting mysterious packages for the crooked local kingpin (Titus Welliver) and studying his craft in Manhattan. (Read the article)
ANSA. The brutal tribulations of a 3rd-century Egyptian saint, protector of those with toothache, are explored by Andy Warhol and contemporary Italian artist Omar Galliani in a new exhibition here. (Read the article)
ANSA. taly is optimistic that a stalled deal on new helicopters for United States President Barack Obama can be revived, Defence Minister Ignazio La Russa said on Thursday. Speaking at the Le Bourget air show, La Russa said Premier Silvio Berlusconi, who met Obama at the White House on Monday, was ''confident'' the contract involving Italo-British manufacturer AgustaWestland would be respected. (Read the article)
ANSA. From 2008 to 2010 the recession will cost some one million jobs, the industrial employers association Confindustria reported on Thursday. This will lift Italy's unemployment rate this year to 8.6% and in 2010 to 9.3%, the highest since 2000, Confindustria added. (Read the article)