ROME — With tensions high on the eve of what is expected to be another round of large demonstrations here, the Rome police found a rudimentary, defective bomb under a seat in the subway on Tuesday, officials said.

An escort who claims she was paid €10,000 (£8,500) to spend two nights with the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has revealed how his parties were “full of young girls”.

It’s getting hard to know what else Silvio Berlusconi, the Italian prime minister, has to do to get evicted from power. In most countries, just one of the dozens of scandals he has been involved in would be enough to finish him off politically....

Demonstrators from the quake-stricken city of L’Aquila clashed with police Wednesday before reaching Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s house to demand more state help to rebuild their lives. The protest by some 5000 people paralysed the...

Berlusconi, 73, suffered a fractured nose, two broken teeth and severe cuts to his gums and lips when he was hit in the face with a souvenir of Milan’s cathedral following a rally in the city earlier this month. The media tycoon wants to recruit...

Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s estranged wife is seeking euro43 million ($65 million) a year in alimony in a divorce case she launched after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal, a bid that was immediately rejected by the billionaire media...

The businessman who is said to have supplied call girls for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s notorious parties in Rome and Sardinia has been arrested on drugs charges. Giampaolo Tarantini, 35, was seized at Bari airport, in south east...

Writing on his blog, Paolo Guzzanti, a right-wing politician who resigned from Mr Berlusconi’s party six months ago, said the reason he withdrew his long-term support was his “whoring attitude of contempt towards women”. He went on to...

Italy’s health and drugs authorities have approved the use of the abortion drug RU486, drawing immediate protests by the Vatican. The Italian Drug Agency ruled, after a meeting which ended last night last night, that the drug cannot be sold in...

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and UK PM Gordon Brown have discussed the fate of the Lockerbie bomber during their first talks, held at the G8 summit. Col Gaddafi urged Mr Brown to allow the man convicted of bombing a plane over Scotland, now terminally...