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The New York Times. Every year, tens of thousands of poverty-stricken people try to cross from Libya to Italy — a favored destination for migrants seeking to circumvent European immigration restrictions, often via a small Italian island called Lampedusa between the coasts of North Africa and Sicily. (Read the article)

NIP-NEWS ITALIA PRESS.  “We want this initiative to be just the starting of a major effort to build a stronger relationship between the Italian restaurant industry and the country”, said Bartolo Ciccardini, the world President of Ciao Italia. “Italy is in a great need to enhance its economic situation and those working in the culinary field could greatly contribute.  This is why the motto of the 2009 edition of the event is: ‘Don’t ask what Italy can do for you, but ask yourself what you can do for your country”. The convention will be held in Bari (15th, 16th, and 18th of April, at the Sheraton Nicolaus) and in Lecce (17th of April, at the Chiostro dei Domenicani) The great public can watch the live broadcasting of the event and also actively participate to the activities and the debates scheduled by accessing the website of the convention (and of the media partners).

The event will feature the presence of 200 congressists coming from all over the world, foreign press, dozens of speakers from Italy and abroad and hundreds of students from the universities and the Hotel Institutes of Puglia. (Read the Article in Italian)

COURANT.COM. Benedetto Cipriani learns this morning how many years he'll spend in prison for arranging the murder of three men at a Windsor Locks auto repair shop five years ago. Tuesday, he learned he would have to spend at least half of that sentence in a Connecticut prison when Judge Julia Dewey denied his request to serve his sentence in his native Italy. (Read the article by David Owens)

ANSA. Three-day-old chickens are able to do basic arithmetic, Italian researchers announced Wednesday.
Scientists from the universities of Trento and Padua said the chicks were able to add and subtract objects that were hidden behind two screens. (Read the article)