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REUTERS. Italy aims to boost capacity of photovoltaic (PV) installations -- which turn sunlight into power -- to 16,000 megawatts (MW) in 2020 from about 280 MW now on the back of generous government incentives. Italy is Europe's third-biggest PV power producer after Germany and Spain, but with a total installed capacity of about 270-280 MW at the end of 2008, the country makes less than one percent of its power at PV facilities. (Read the Article)
ANSA. Sting has spoken for the first time about his life as a farmer on the large Tuscan estate where he has spent much of the last 15 years. (Read the article)
ANSA. ope Benedict XVI has admitted to making ''mistakes'', including not checking the Internet, when he lifted the excommunication of a Holocaust denier and three other ultra-traditionalist bishops. (Read the article by Fiona Winward)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Rome. State archaeologists are up in arms over a proposal to shift control of fragile ancient monuments here to a government committee with special powers, saying it will undermine their authority. (Read the article by Elisabetta Povoledo)
ANSA. - The global financial crunch has forced most luxury brands to review their expansion plans, but Italy's quality menswear label Zegna is taking an upbeat approach and is banking on a more positive future ''Things are really tough. (Read the article)
ANSA. Former Italy manager Roberto Donadoni said Wednesday he had no fears about reviving Serie A club Napoli in his first soccer job since Euro 2008. (Read the article)
THE NEW YORK TIMES. Inter Milan Manager José Mourinho is special. He’ll tell you so. And so too will those who work with him, play for him and compete against him. The Portuguese coach has had great success in a relatively short managerial career. (Read the article by Jeuffey Marcus)
ABC. As an alleged mafia hitman, Charles Carneglia excelled at making people vanish. Now he and the rest of New York's once mighty Cosa Nostra could be the ones disappearing. (Read the article)
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE. U.S. President Barack Obama's lifting of restrictions on federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research puts him at odds with Pope Benedict and the American Roman Catholic Church. (Read the article by Philip Pullella)
RETUTERS. Lawyers for the Italian state began arguments to the Constitutional Court Tuesday to try to get a case against U.S. and Italian spies accused of kidnapping a terrorism suspect thrown out. (Read the article)