John Hooper

George Clooney and Christiano Ronaldo will testify in the trial of Italy’s ex-PM Silvio Berlusconi, charged with paying for sex with an underage girl.

Members of the Italian prime minister’s party have been turning against him for weeks.

The president of the European Central Bank has vigorously defended his controversial decision to buy up Italian and Spanish bonds.

The Gadaffi family could have billions of dollars of funds hidden away in secret bank accounts in Dubai, Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf.

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.

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?

It was the kind of flamboyant outburst you expect from a chef.

Anyone who visits Italy sees one sooner or later, most likely tucked into the frame of a mirror above a bar or taped to the dashboard of a taxi. But lots of devout Roman Catholic…

Maurizio Montalbini is Italy’s least gregarious citizen. The 53-year-old sociologist has distinguished himself by spending almost three years of his life in total on his own and…