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...