“Silvio Berlusconi” on The Daily Caller

ROME (AP) — Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has resigned, ending a 17-year political era and setting in motion a transition aimed at bringing the country back from the brink of economic crisis. (more)

Silvio Berlusconi is Italy’s longet serving post-war prime minister. He’s been sworn in four times, and has been a big-name Italian player for more than 17 years — in politics and in the bedroom. (more)

Faced with a proposed Italian law that would levy fines against bloggers singled out by aggrieved subjects without due process, the Italian page of Wikipedia shut down its site in protest. (more)

CERNOBBIO, Italy (AP) — Italy’s government, waffling for weeks on an emergency austerity plan, received a stern warning Saturday from the European central bank chief to promptly implement the deficit-fighting measures and to stay on target. (more)

In a sign of his frustration at the investigations into his alleged crimes and misdemeanours, Silvio Berlusconi vowed in July to leave Italy, which he described as a “shitty country” that “sickened” him. (more)

ROME (AP) — Italian police arrested a businessman Thursday on charges of allegedly extorting money from Premier Silvio Berlusconi to ensure the man’s cooperation in a probe over recruiting prostitutes to attend wild parties at Berlusconi’s home. (more)

Mr Berlusconi, 74, who has been charged with having underage sex with a prostitute, accused the centre left of being smelly as tensions rose ahead of local elections this weekend. (more)

MILAN (AP) — The Moroccan teen at the center of the underage prostitution scandal enveloping Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi insists any damage she has suffered has been at the hands of the media — not the Italian premier. (more)

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s prostitution trial is coming up next month, and George Clooney has been named a witness by defense lawyers. (more)

Last month, the good folks at NASA announced that their high-powered Keppler telescope had revealed over 1,200 possible new planets. So, it seems more and more likely that we are not alone in this big, bad universe. Now we’d all like to think that the aliens who come here first will be cute and cuddly like E.T., or like those music-loving little fellas in “close encounters of the third kind.” But you know they won’t be — things are never that easy. They’ll probably be more like those little bastards that Sigourney Weaver had to stomp on in “aliens.” They’ll be mean, tough, and likely pretty pissed off from the long drive to get here. (more)

ROME (AP) — Italy’s parliament backed Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday, rebuffing a request by prosecutors to search some of his properties as part of a prostitution investigation targeting him. (more)

MADRID (AP) — The leaders of France, Germany, Britain, Italy and Spain ratcheted up the pressure Thursday on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, saying that Egypt’s political transition “must start now.” (more)

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi came under mounting criticism Friday from the Catholic Church over his dalliances with young women, with the pope saying public officials must set good moral examples and Italian bishops planning to discuss the sex scandal. (more)

How much would you give to be Silvio Berlusconi? An arm? A leg? Your first born? (more)

ROME (AP) — Prosecutors are investigating whether Premier Silvio Berlusconi paid for sex with an underage girl from Morocco and then abused his power in trying to cover up the encounters, officials said Friday. (more)

Police fired tear gas as cars were set on fire and demonstrators threw eggs, paint and stones at parliament buildings. (more)

The Internet Age has given us much to celebrate: finding old friends and making new ones; communicating in seconds what previously might have taken hours or even days, and having breaking news at our fingertips, to name only a few . (more)

ROME (AP) — Italy’s opposition presented a no-confidence motion against Premier Silvio Berlusconi on Friday, setting the stage for a showdown in parliament that could spell the end of the government. (more)

ROME (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi dismissed calls Tuesday to resign over his involvement with an underage Moroccan runaway – and even created a new uproar by claiming it was better to love beautiful girls than gays. (more)

ROME (AP) — Premier Silvio Berlusconi issued an unapologetic defense of his lifestyle Friday amid the latest scandal involving his personal life, admitting that he intervened to secure the release from police custody of a 17-year-old Moroccan girl who had previously been at his villa. (more)