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UPI.COM. The highest Italian court reversed the conviction Tuesday of a judge who refuses to enter courtrooms where a crucifix is hanging. (Read the article)
ANSA. Italy's first 'atheist bus' got moving Monday but had to head straight back to the depot because of a power fault. After repairs the bus started out on its route again and is set to spread its message around the northwestern Italian city for the next month. (Read the article)
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE. A British lawyer accused of taking $600,000 in exchange for false testimony designed to help Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was convicted of corruption Tuesday and sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. (Read the article)
BBC. Italy's centre-left opposition leader, Walter Veltroni, has resigned after a his Democratic Party lost a key local election on the island of Sardinia. The result consolidated the hold on power of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right alliance, after its candidate for governor won. (Read the article)
REUTERS. U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Monday said she did not see any Congressional bias against Fiat being involved in discussions with Chrysler because it is not an American company. (Leggi l'articolo)
AFP. The US administration is committed to a "new era of cooperation" with its allies, US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Monday during a visit to Rome. (Read the article)
AP. Italy will not accept any Guantanamo Bay detainees when the U.S. prison shuts down, a close ally of Premier Silvio Berlusconi said Monday after meeting with U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. (Read the article)
REUTERS. "Somewhere in the mix of things, someone has decided that America has become, is becoming, more protectionist. I don't think that is the case," Pelosi told reporters at the Italian parliament. (Read the article)
NEW YORK TIMES. The Moment. This week’s guest blogger is none other than the éminence grise of Italian design, Giorgio Armani. As the president, chief executive and sole shareholder of the multi-billion-dollar company he founded in 1975, Armani is the wealthiest fashion designer on the planet. He has defined the working wardrobe of the late-20th century and will go down in history as the man who taught Hollywood how to dress. (Read the article by Giorgio Armani)
TIMESONLINE. An Italian Cabinet ministe,r Roberto Maroni, called today for rapists to be chemically castrated, amid a growing row over vigilante attacks on immigrants that have followed a series of rapes blamed on foreigners. (Read the article by Richard Owen)