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Calling Spike Lee “the most anti-Italian director of all time,” a N.J.-based national Italian-American anti-defamation organization has inducted the award-winning film director to its “Hall of Shame.”

A year plus after his owner died, a cat named Toldo has continued to visit his grave in Montagnana, a small village in the hills outside Pistoia, north of the city of Florence in Tuscany.

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Italy's prisons violated inmates’ basic rights and fined the government $130,000. It also ordered Italy to make improvements within a year. The court ruled on a 2009 case brought by seven inmates in two prisons who complained that each had to share a 97-square-foot cell with two other inmates.

The top political official of a suburb of the Italian city of Naples has denied a request to allow cameras into the area as part of the filming of a television series about the local mob based on fears it would damage the reputation of the neighborhood already known for revenge killings, Mafia control and drug wars.