NEW YORK — This Friday, mafia boss and notorious narco-trafficker Vincenzo Roccisano is scheduled to appear before a Nassau County judge after his February arrest, at a Long Island restaurant, for illegally re-entering the United States. Four years ago, Roccisano was deported from the U.S. to Italy after serving a 20-year sentence for routing drugs from Latin America to Europe. Roccisano’s arrest may look like a throwback to decades past when Italian mafiosi — not Mexican traficantes — controlled the flow of drugs.

WASHINGTON — One billion people go hungry every day. That’s why the development community recently welcomed a new trust fund to fight global hunger. The U.S. and other international donors have announced a combined initial contribution of $880 million for the next two years — a good start for the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP) that will be based at the World Bank. It's a generous contribution, but it amounts to less than a dollar for each hungry person.

NEW YORK – "Teacher Absences Plague City Schools!" "Who’s the Greatest Yankee?" "Schnitzel Travails in Midtown!" No, these are not the screaming headlines of Mort Zuckerman’s Daily News, nor Rupert Murdoch's New York Post. They’re torn from the pages of the new “Greater New York” section of Murdoch’s other New York paper, the Wall Street Journal, now wrapping up week one of its latest campaign to destroy The New York Times.