Prime minister Mario Monti has told Italy’s president he is resigning because he can no longer govern after Silvio Berlusconi’s party withdrew crucial support.

Italy’s former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was briefly sentenced to four years in jail for tax fraud, and was banned from holding public office for five years.

Former premier Silvio Berlusconi, who has been convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to four years in prison, has condemned the convictions as "unreal".

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi has been handed a four-year sentence after being convicted of tax evasion by a Milan court.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has denied in court having had sex with an underage Moroccan girl, or ever paying for sex with any guest at his villa near Milan.

Female guests at Silvio Berlusconi’s “bunga bunga” parties dressed up like nuns in the Sister Act musical, then stripped to their underwear, according to the testimony of a model at his trial.

A Milan court has ruled that the statute of limitations has run out in a corruption case against Silvio Berlusconi, handing Italy’s former prime minister another victory in a long string of judicial woes he has faced.

Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi’s legal woes returned to haunt him as Milan prosecutors asked he be sentenced to five years in prison for bribing his former tax lawyer.

Actor George Clooney is among more than 200 witnesses accepted by a Milan court in the trial of former Premier Silvio Berlusconi for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute.

JUDGES in Milan have rejected a request by Silvio Berlusconi’s lawyers to put on hold a trial where he is accused of paying for sex with an underage prostitute, in a legal setback for the Italian prime minister.

ITALIAN prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was in court in Milan yesterday for a hearing into claims he paid a former lawyer €416,000 for false testimony about his business dealings.

A MILAN court rejected submissions by Silvio Berlusconi’s defence team in the trial against the Italian premier for alleged bribery and paying for sex with a 17-year-old girl.

Lawyers for the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi are seeking to have his trial on sex charges moved from a Milan court to a special Ministerial tribunal.

Aspiring Italian starlets and Oscar-winning actor George Clooney are being called to make appearances in premier Silvio Berlusconi’s trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute, then tried to use his influence to cover it up.

ASPIRING Italian starlets and Oscar-winning actor George Clooney are being called to make appearances in Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s trial on charges he paid for sex with an underage prostitute, then tried to use his influence to cover it up.

THE head of Italy’s highest court slammed Silvio Berlusconi’s “neurotic” accusations that the justice system was biased yesterday as the prime minister awaits trial for abuse of power and having underage sex.

PROSECUTORS will today request an immediate trial against embattled Premier Silvio Berlusconi over accusations he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl and then used his influence to cover it up.

Italian prosecutors want to put premier Silvio Berlusconi on trial over accusations he paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl and then used his influence to cover it up.

The Economist magazine says a Milan court has rejected defamation claims against it lodged by Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

Former Italian premiere Silvio Berlusconi has been cleared in a Milan corruption case, news reports said today.

The acquittal of former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges should be reversed, a prosecutor told a Milan court today.

A Muslim militant charged as a key suspect in the 2004 Madrid terror bombings was today turned over to Spain by Italy, where he has been convicted of terrorism, police said.

A Milan court today ordered former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills to stand trial on charges of corruption.

An alleged ringleader of the March 2004 Madrid bombings appeared in a Milan court today at the scheduled start of his trial on charges of international terrorism and plotting another attack in an undisclosed location.

A panel of judges in Milan upheld the acquittals today of three North Africans, accused of recruiting suicide bombers for Iraq, on international terrorism charges, a defence lawyer said.

A Milan court today cleared Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of charges of false bookkeeping in a case involving funding for the former Socialist party, his lawyer said.

A Milan court acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges that have dogged him throughout his term, a ruling he said was ”better late than never”.

A MILAN court yesterday acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges - a major victory in the billionaire business baron’s decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing prosecutors.

A Milan court today acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges – a major victory in the billionaire business baron’s decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing prosecutors.

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 Berlusconi provoked uproar in the European Parliament today by telling a German critic that he should star as a Nazi concentration camp guard in a film.

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.