ASHLEY HALL: The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has survived many legal wrangles but his latest could bring him undone.

(Reuters) - Writers, intellectuals and a former president of the constitutional court rallied in Milan on Saturday against scandal-hit Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, accusing him of wrecking Italy’s international reputation.

Hundreds of migrant workers, most of them Africans, went on a rampage Friday in a southern Italian town in a second day of rioting, with authorities reporting at least 37 wounded, including 18 police officers and five migrants.

A Sicilian man stole sweets and a packet of chewing gum so he could get arrested and spend New Year’s Eve in a jail cell rather than be with his wife and relatives, Italian media reported.

Silvio Berlusconi’s hopes for a ‘quiet’ divorce settlement have been shattered after his wife demanded a share of his £5.6billion empire. Papers filed in a Milan court also showed that Veronica Lario blamed the Italian premier...

Italian police say they have seized a crocodile they believe was used by a suspected mafia boss to terrorise people into paying protection money. The reptile was 1.7m (5.5ft) long and weighed 40kg (88lb). It was found during a weapons search at the...

The daughter of Silvio Berlusconi has described her astonishment at the 72-year-old Italian Prime Minister’s mysterious relationship with a teenage lingerie model. In her first interview since the publication of audio tapes allegedly featuring pillow...

An Italian man was given a suspended jail sentence for staring too intensely at a woman sitting in front of him on a train.