The prostitution trial is the most dangerous yet in Berlusconi’s teflon-coated history.
Ministers loyal to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s former ally Gianfranco Fini has resigned from the Italian government.
The Vatican’s view of issues such as abortion, homosexuality and female priests looks increasingly at odds with modern secular realities.
Pope Benedict has appointed controversial retired archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor in sex abuse scandal case.
He’s a man of temperate habits with a love of cats and classical music. Yet his image is that of God’s rottweiler. John Hooper profiles the pope.
Pope Benedict XVI is shy man of temperate habits with a love of cats and classicial music. How does this square with his image as God’s rottweiler?
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/ 4 December 2008
It was the kind of flamboyant outburst you expect from a chef.
A series of tragedies involving migrants off the coast of Spain has raised fears that the summer could see a record death toll in the region.
Italians on Tuesday got their first taste of life under their new government as Silvio Berlusconi moved to appease the newly powerful Northern League with pledges of lower taxes, more police and camps for jobless foreigners. ”One of the things to do is to close the frontiers,” he said in a TV interview.
Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday appealed to Italian voters to give him a huge majority at the general election on Sunday and Monday. He said that ”to really govern” he needed a margin of at least 20 seats in the Senate, the Upper House of the Italian Parliament. That would allow him ”to take, if necessary, difficult and unpopular decisions”.