10 days ago
Local electoral triumphs could help it to wield a stronger hand in the ruling coalition, which quickly gave in to Berlusconi's demands to stop an unpopular property tax.
12 days ago
Nicole Minetti testified Friday in her own defense in the trial of three former Berlusconi aides accused of procuring women for prostitution for the billionaire.
16 days ago
Nicolo Ghedini said Tuesday during closing arguments that Berlusconi neither paid for sex with an under-age teen, nor tried to cover it up, as charged, and should be found not guilty.
18 days ago
The three are accused of recruiting women to attend Berlusconi's infamous "bunga bunga" parties and abetting prostitution, including of a minor.
25 days ago
On the stand, she said the closest she had gotten to the soccer star were advertising billboards around Milan that summer - and that she had not been paid to have sex with him.''If I didn't...
26 days ago
Silvio Berlusconi's figure looms large over Rome's mayoral elections this weekend even though the former premier isn't among the 19 candidates running.
26 days ago
Berlusconi is expected to appeal to Italy's highest court.
33 days ago
Prosecutors in Berlusconi's separate trial on charges of paying for sex with a minor and trying to cover it up say her testimony is unreliable and are relying on her sworn statements.
36 days ago
Prosecutor Ilda Boccassini told the court that the young women invited to the former premier's parties ''were part of a system of prostitution organized for the pleasure of Silvio Berlusconi.
38 days ago
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.
41 days ago
Silvio Berlusconi will lead his political party in a rally to protest his tax fraud conviction, which carries a prison sentence and a ban from public office.
41 days ago
In October, a court convicted Berlusconi in a scheme that involved inflating the price his Mediaset media empire paid for TV rights to U.S. movies and pocketing the difference.
44 days ago
Berlusconi was re-elected to Parliament in February elections, but has no ministerial role in the new cross-party government that allies his center-right with the center-left Democratic Party.
97 days ago
Both courts have asked for court-appointed doctors to certify his condition, enraging lawmakers in Berlusconi's center-right coalition, who marched on the Milan courthouse earlier this week.
100 days ago
Prosecutors in Silvio Berlusconi's sensational sex-for-hire trial have requested court-appointed doctors certify that the former premier's medical condition is severe enough to postpone a hearing.
101 days ago
Berlusconi's center-right coalition finished second, although the center-left leader Pier Luigi Bersani has ruled out joining forces in a sort of grand coalition.
103 days ago
Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was being treated in a Milan hospital for eye inflammation that prevented him from attending his sex-for-hire trial.
104 days ago
A Milan court has convicted former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for the illegal publication of transcripts of wiretapped conversations in a newspaper owned by his media empire.
112 days ago
Silvio Berlusconi, the former Italian premier whose center-right coalition did better than expected, is a key player since his coalition is now the second-biggest bloc in the upper chamber.
113 days ago
Berlusconi says having another election soon won't solve problems, and called on fellow leaders to ''make some sacrifices," an apparent call for a coalition government.
113 days ago
The euro tumbled against other global currencies, particularly the Japanese yen, as investors tracked the outcome of national elections in Italy, where a potentially strong performance by Silvio...
113 days ago
Those gains and a strong showing by former premier Silvio Berlusconi suggested that Italy could be headed for political disarray, undermining the country's efforts to reform its economy and...
116 days ago
Italian media quoted his personal doctor, Alberto Zangrillo, as saying Berlusconi was advised to skip the rally, because he has a posterior vitreous detachment in an eye.
119 days ago
Born in 1951 - 15 years to the day after Berlusconi - Bersani grew up in Emilia Romagna, the affluent north-central region at the heart of Italy's so-called "red belt."
131 days ago
The last political polls to be published before Italy's national elections suggest that ex-Premier Silvio Berlusconi is gaining ground on the center-left candidate.
