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CORRIERE DELLA SERA.  Four new cases of influenza A/H1N1 have been reported. All four are students at secondary schools in Rome. The junior health minister, Ferruccio Fazio, ordered the immediate closure of the two schools for a week as a precautionary measure. The cases, which were confirmed on Thursday, involve students from the Convitto Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele II and the Dante Alighieri secondary school. (Read the article)

FOX NEWS. Producer Herman Chanowitz  finds himself in the Eternal City, also known as Rome, in November of 2008. He recounts us the experiences he had there while filming a new episode of his series  "War Stories with Oliver North". The episode was about Benito Mussolini's rise and fall and Italy's involvement in World War II. Also, how the Allied Forces battled back the Germans in some of the most brutal fighting of the war. "It was my first time in this historic country and I was thrilled that I could be there to help tell the stories of such brave and heroic men" (Read the article by Kelly Guernica)

ANSA. One of Italy's most notorious eyesores, a huge unfinished hotel complex on a Ligurian island, disappeared Friday after decades of campaigning by environmentalists. Some 50 kg of dynamite was used to bring down the seven-floor building, known as the Scheletrone ('big skeleton'), overlooking a beach on the island of Palmaria, which forms part of the region's Cinque Terre UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Read the article)

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR.  Prince Emmanuel Filiberto of Savoy hopes his recent win in Italy's 'Dancing With the Stars' will ignite a political career in his homeland. His family was not even allowed to set foot on Italian soil until 2003. But one of Italy's formerly exiled royals hopes that an unlikely win on a reality TV show will catapult him toward a political career and restore the honor of his once illustrious family. (Read the article)