Silvio Berlusconi News

Silvio Berlusconi's private disco featured not only aspiring showgirls performing striptease acts as sexy nuns and nurses, but one woman dressed up as President Barack Obama and a prominent Milan prosecutor whom the billionaire media mogul has accused of persecuting him, according to the first public sworn testimony by the Moroccan woman at the ... (more)

Thousands of protesters, led by trade unionists, have rallied in the Italian capital Rome against the policies of the new coalition government.

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi 's parties featured showgirls stressed as nuns and nurses - and also those dressed as President Obama.

The woman alleged to have had sex for money with Silvio Berlusconi when she was just 17 and he was the prime minister began testifying on Friday at a trial of three people accused of pimping for him.

Rome, May 16 - Italian President Giorgio Napolitano has praised Italy's main political parties for making Premier Enrico Letta's left-right government possible but warned that elements in the political class have not realised the country is on the "razor's edge". Letta's centre-left Democratic Party and ex-premier Silvio Berlusconi's People of ... (more)

Rome, May 15 - Italy's cabinet will consider whether to suspended a hated property tax on primary homes during meetings on Friday, sources said Wednesday.

Milan, May 14 - Italian television giant Mediaset on Tuesday reported flat first-quarter profits on the back of declining revenues.

Milan, May 14 - Allies of Silvio Berlusconi on Tuesday came out in force against a Milan prosecutor's request Monday the former premier be sentenced to a combined six-year jail term for abuse of power and for having sex with an alleged underage prostitute known as Ruby.

London, May 14 : Prosecutors have said there is 'no doubt' former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi had paid for sex with underage prostitute and abused his office to cover it up.

The publication of a new thriller by Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, is always bound to attract huge media attention.

Perhaps spurred on by the success of what is being dubbed "new Nordic cuisine" and the trailblazing kitchen of Rene Redzepi and his Copenhagen restaurant Noma, or perhaps influenced by the locavore movement sweeping the restaurant world, the cuisine from the far northern reaches of continental Europe is experiencing a revolution.

Berlusconi is accused of paying for sex with an underage Moroccan prostitute at a lavish party he hosted while he was premier and then trying to cover it up.

People of Freedom party member Silvio Berlusconi gestures as he makes an address on stage in Brescia May 11, 2013.

Former Premier Silvio Berlusconi's sex-for-hire trial entered the final stretch Monday with a Milan prosecutor making long-delayed closing arguments.

Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta warned his center-right coalition partners on Sunday that the future of the government was at risk following a furious row over Silvio Berlusconi's attacks on magistrates in a rally at the weekend.

Silvio Berlusconi launched a fierce attack on magistrates at a stormy political rally on Saturday, accusing them of trying to eliminate him politically but he pledged to keep supporting the fragile coalition of centre-left Prime Minister Enrico Letta.

Political supporters of ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi are rallying in a northern Italian city to protest the media mogul's recent conviction by a Milan appeals court for tax fraud.

On Saturday April 20, the leaders of Italy's two biggest political forces climbed the Quirinal, highest of Rome's seven ancient hills, and begged President Giorgio Napolitano to stay for a second term.

Rome, May 10 - A decree suspending summer payments on the unpopular IMU homeowners' tax should be put forth in the middle of next week, government sources said following a summit with the whips of the parties supporting Enrico Letta's government.

Rome: A loudmouth in elections earlier this year, Silvio Berlusconi has been understated since then, as he seeks a statesman-like image marked by his surprisingly muted reaction to a court ruling that upheld his conviction for tax fraud.