Italy's highest court is hearing the appeal today of British lawyer David Mills, who was found guilty of accepting a bribe to lie in court to protect Silvio Berlusconi.

ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi’s estranged wife is seeking €43 million a year in alimony in a divorce case she launched after her husband was embroiled in a sex scandal.

An appeals court in Milan today upheld the conviction of British lawyer David Mills for accepting a bribe to lie in court to protect Silvio Berlusconi.

Italy’s beleaguered Premier Silvio Berlusconi today promised to go on TV and appear in court to prove that corruption and tax fraud charges in two trials against him are false.

ITALY’S Silvio Berlusconi faced a day of reckoning yesterday as the Constitutional Court began mulling whether to strip him of immunity from prosecution on pending corruption charges.

Italian magazine publisher Mondadori, controlled by former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is looking to snap up Emap’s consumer magazines arm, it emerged today.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and the estranged husband of British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell, David Mills, were today ordered to stand trial on charges of false accounting, embezzlement and tax fraud in the purchase of TV rights for US movies, his lawyer said.

In an Italian economy that has stumbled into recession, the businesses of the country’s media mogul leader, Premier Silvio Berlusconi, have been a rare bright spot.

The European Union’s High Court in Luxembourg today upheld changes to Italian law which have helped Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi avoid charges of false accounting.

The European Union’s High Court is set to deliver a ruling today on changes to Italian law which have helped Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi avoid charges of false accounting.

A Milan court today convicted an ally of Italian primer minister Silvio Berlusconi of one corruption charge, sentencing him to five years in prison, but acquitted him of another corruption charge, that of bribing judges.

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi was today acquitted under the statute of limitations of charges of false bookkeeping in the 1992 transfer of a footballer to the team he owns.

AC MILAN are in talks aimed at signing Brazilian World Cup winner Rivaldo.