Silvio Berlusconi News

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has caused a buzz all over Italy this week with the release of a new book that simply asks the colorful premier about some equally colorful exploits.

Italy's prime minister says a court ruling banning classroom crosses doesn't mean crucifixes already in place will have to come down.

Brasilia, November 5 - Ex-terrorist Cesare Battisti said on Thursday that he was ''just a trophy'' to the Italian government, which is fighting for his extradition from Brazil.

Italy became the first country to convict U.S. government agents for employing extraordinary rendition, the practice of transferring terror suspects from one foreign country to another for incarceration and interrogation.

Negotiators and diplomats were working Thursday on a scaled-back version of a global climate change treaty that could be agreed by next month's deadline.

Europe's increasingly muscular brand of secularism has an unofficial capital: Strasbourg, France.

Italian prosecutor Armando Spataro speaks to a Milan court on Nov. 4, 2009, at the end of the trial of 26 Americans in the 2003 abduction of terrorism suspect Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr Giuseppe Cacace / AFP / Getty Twenty-two CIA agents who were convicted by a Milan court on Wednesday of kidnapping an Egyptian cleric are unlikely to spend any time ...

Italians reacted with outrage on Tuesday after a European court ruled that displaying crucifixes in the country's schools violated the principle of secular education.

Italy's education minister condemned the judgment by the European Court of Human Rights, saying that the Christian cross was a symbol of the country's Roman Catholic religion and cultural identity.

Mariastella Gelmini, a member of the conservative government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, argued that "no one, and certainly not an ideological European court, will succeed in erasing our identity," said

Crucifix ruling sparks uproar in Italy A crucifix is seen on a wall as a student writes on a blackboard in a school classroom in Rome November 3, 2009.

Silvio Berlusconi addresses the United Nations General Assembly at the U.N. headquarters on September 23, 2009 in New York City.

Bermuda's first luxury hotel for 35 years gets back to the very best basics from the island's colonial past Reviewed by Sarah Gilbert PRESS PICTURE Splash of colour: one of the three Hockney-blue infinity pools at Tucker's Point Club enlarge Britain's oldest colony is celebrating its 400th birthday with the opening of its first luxury hotel in over ...

IT IS a tangled tale of sex, greed and ambition in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.

Lebanon believes the Israeli army has it in its sights, and is preparing a major attack on its soil.

It is a tangled tale of sex, greed, ambition and blackmail in Silvio Berlusconi's celebrity-obsessed Italy.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak cancelled his scheduled visit to Madrid on Friday as tension grows between Israel and Spain due to a disagreement over the command of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon .

Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel are not terribly enthusiastic. Silvio Berlusconi remains his strongest backer.

Though the life of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been plagued by sex scandals in recent years, it was a leading member of the opposition who has given in and resigned.

THE Milan motorcycle show used to be a bi-annual affair, alternating with Germany's Cologne event.

Silvio Berlusconi often declares that he is passionate about the opposite sex, but for many Italian women the feeling is very far from being reciprocated.

A petition against the Italian prime minister's chauvinistic quips and saloon bar repartee has attracted more than 100,000 signatures and thousands of captioned self-portraits.

The grass-roots rebellion was prompted by an insult thrown by Mr. Berlusconi recently at a female political opponent.

During a national television debate about a pair of corruption trials he is facing the 73-year-old premier found himself in an argument with a matronly, bespectacled opposition member of parliament, Rosy Bindi.

Italy has slipped to 72nd in a global league table measuring gender equality, putting it behind countries including Kazakhstan.