ROME: An Italian court on Wednesday upheld a tax fraud conviction for former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, confirming his sentence of one year in prison and a five-year ban from public office. "The court confirms the sentence against Silvio Berlusconi," a judge inMilansaid in a live audio feed ...

ROME  - Silvio Berlusconi said on Saturday his centre-right party would soon present eight bills to parliament, including a proposal to abolish a hated housing tax, in an attempt to seize the initiative despite Italy’s political deadlock. Since elections in February, Italy has been in ...

MILAN (Reuters) - An Italian court sentenced ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday to one year in jail over the publication by his family’s newspaper of a transcript of a leaked wiretap connected to a banking scandal in 2006.Italian justice system rules mean the 76-year-old media ...

MILAN  - An Italian court on Monday turned down a request from former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's defence for his trial for underage sex to be suspended until after February elections. A Moroccan-born exotic dancer at the centre of the case, however, will not be testifying after ...

ROME  - Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi revived his historic alliance with the far-right Northern League on Monday and stepped back from his leadership bid in a deal to shore up support ahead of February elections. “An agreement has been signed,” Berlusconi told RTL television, ...

ROME (AFP) - An Italian court has ordered Silvio Berlusconi to pay his second wife $3.95 million a month or $48m a year alimony as part of a legal separation settlement opening the way for their divorce, media reports said Friday.Veronica Lario filed for divorce in 2009 after revelations that ...

ROME  - Silvio Berlusconi on Saturday ended weeks of speculation by announcing he would run again for the job of prime minister, the post he was forced out of last year.He had called a meeting of the PDL for Sunday and had opened talks with former coalition allies the Northern League to try to ...

ROME - Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi confirmed on Wednesday he would not lead his center-right People of Freedom (PDL) party in next year’s election. “I will not stand for premier again but I remain at the side of younger people who can play and score goals,” the ...

ROME (Reuters) - Former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has returned to the political frontline after months in the shadows, vowing to abolish a key tax on homes in remarks likely to stoke investors’ jitters about Italy’s future after an election next spring. But the 75-year-old media ...

Rome : Italian former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has dislocated his shoulder and a wrist after a fall in the garden of his villa in Sardinia, Italian media reported on Friday. The 75-year-old took a tumble while walking in the park at Villa Certosa on the northeast of the Italian island and ...

ROME - Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, forced out amid sleaze claims as the economy crashed last year, failed to show at a meeting where he had been tipped to announce a comeback.Angelo Alfano, new leader of Berlusconi's People of Freedom Party, said he had another unspecified ...

ROME  - Girls in nun costumes and one wearing a mask of footballer Ronaldinho stripped for Silvio Berlusconi, a witness said Monday at the former Italian premier’s trial for having illegal relations with an underage prostitute.Model Imane Fadil said the first time she went to a party she ...

In the end, despite a myriad of sins, it was a routine parliamentary ballot that tore Berlusconis coalition apart. A vote on his austerity package proved a pyrrhic victory, as he failed to gain a majority in the lower house of parliament. The Italian Prime Minister has stepped down after pushing ...

HONG KONG (AFP) - Asian markets rose Wednesday and Italian bond yields fell from record highs after Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi promised to quit, lifting hopes that Europes debt crisis can be contained. Adding to buying sentiment was data out of China showing that the countrys inflation had ...

WITH his country facing ruin, Berlusconi might have been able to take his attention from women for just a short while. But it seems that even in parliament, the 74-year-old tycoon-turned-prime minister can't resist being a ladies' man. Berlusconi was pictured smiling broadly as he flirted with the ...

AN Italian women's rights group has asked the court overseeing Silvio Berlusconi's sex trial for the right to seek compensation from the prime minister, claiming that he has offended the dignity of all Italian women, reported Telegraph on Monday. Mr Berlusconi's trial for abuse of office. ...

ROME (Reuters) - Opposition lawmakers have criticised Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi for failing to condemn violence in Libya and saying he did not want to "disturb" Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi during a revolt in the North African state. Berlusconi's government, which has aggressively ...

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has no intention of stepping down, his party said on Friday, amid talks within the ruling coalition after a call from the speaker of parliament for him to resign. Berlusconi's People of Freedom party said it would be "unacceptable" for parliament to form "a ...

ROME (AFP) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has called Barack Obama tanned again despite coming under fire for using the term before to describe the first black US president. This time, Berlusconi also used the term to describe First Lady Michelle Obama during an event for his ...

ROME (AFP) - Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has evoked the prospect of an Italian withdrawal from Afghanistan after next months elections after a key ally said it time to bring troops home, a report said Thursday. We will only be able to turn our attentions to an exit strategy from Afghanistan ...

At least three people were killed and 15 injured Sunday in an explosion in eastern Ethiopia, as investigators scrambled to determine if it was an act of terrorism or an accident, police said. The blast occurred near a hotel in Jijiga, the capital of Ethiopia's eastern Somali region, federal police ...