A boardroom row is on the cards after Independent News and Media warned it would not be happy to see the Irish Daily Star shut down.

An Italian magazine is set to follow a French publication in printing topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge, it was reported today.

HYSTERICAL and tearful messages from Italians imploring Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to persevere after being attacked last year fill a new book that hits stores just as campaigning for regional elections steps up.

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.

A high-end prostitute says she has proof she spent the night at Silvio Berlusconi’s Rome residence after a party that allegedly featured the prime minister’s wisecracks, his cabaret crooning, and a bevy of sexy women.

ITALIAN prime minister Silvio Berlusconi, facing demands to explain his relationship with a teenage girl, denied yesterday he had had a “steamy affair” and said he would have to resign if caught lying about it.

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.

Media group Emap – which publishes Closer and FHM – today warned underlying revenues were being hit by difficult trading conditions.

Media group and Heat magazine publisher Emap today said it had lined up the Italian publisher of women’s glossy Grazia as a possible buyer for its struggling French business.

Magazines and radio group Emap is to launch the UK’s first weekly glossy magazine for women, it said today.

AFTER the conviction of one of his oldest business and political allies for bribing judges, all eyes now turn to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, due to face charges in an unrelated corruption case tomorrow.