Focus::Daily News

NEWSLINE

The NewYork Times. WHEN Roberto Gagliardi, an Italian-born art dealer and collector based in London, drove past an old, shut-down hotel on the main concourse of the ancient town of Chianciano Terme, in the Italian province of Siena, he saw an opportunity. (Read the article)

USA TODAY.  It didn't take long for Tim Barton to realize the impact he was making by becoming the first American to buy a top Italian soccer club. Barton signed a preliminary deal last month to acquire Bari from the Matarrese family that has controlled the club for the past 32 years. After due diligence, the transfer of ownership is to be completed by Oct. 31, when Barton will become club president. (Read the Article)

EXAMINER. Mike Buongiorno has passed on leaving the stage forever. The most popular host of Italian TV shows was an Italian-American Newyorker who moved to Italy. During WWII he became a partisan, was captured, imprisoned and deported to Germany. (Read the article)

PEOPLE. His hand still bandaged from a motoring accident last month, George Clooney was spotted arriving in Venice Monday sporting something that's all the rage in Italian trends -- TV presenter Elisabetta Canalis. (Read the article)

AP. Participants at a conference on violence against women vowed Thursday to put women's rights at the center of the international agenda, saying world peace and security depended on women's leadership in government and society. (Read the article)

Reuters. Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi hit back at his critics on Thursday, saying he is far and away the best leader in Italian history and has never considered resigning over scandals concerning his private life. (Read the article)

ANSA. The extraordinary life of a 16th-century Italian mathematician and missionary who settled in China is portrayed in a film being screened at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. (Read the article)

ANSA. Naples bus drivers refused to work Thursday saying their vehicles had to be cleaned to make sure they weren't carrying the new flu virus. Commuters waited for hours, called cabs or went home after the city's biggest bus depot shut down in the latest scare after the death of Italy's first H1N1 flu victim. (Read the article)

ANSA. Mantua, September 10 - An upcoming exhibition here explores a little-known side of Italian motor-racing legend Tazio Nuvolari, who nurtured a secret passion for photography. (Read the article)

ANSA. Italy's "TV-Quiz King" Mike Bongiorno, an Italian American, died of a heart attack Tuesday in Monte Carlo. (Read the article)

Pages