Defiant in the face of a sex scandal, Premier Silvio Berlusconi said today that he is still popular because Italians secretly want to be like him.

A VERY public divorce and allegations of being an aspiring teenage model’s “Papi” have put a dent in Silvio Berlusconi’s popularity ratings, says a new poll.

Why did somebody behind their vast Hollywood desk reckon this terrible film would be worth spending money on?

A spokesperson for Jennifer Lopez has hit back at a US journalist, denying reports that the star suffered a nervous breakdown in 2002.

HOPES faded yesterday that anyone else would be rescued from an Italian school knocked down

Italian rescuers today frantically hunted for survivors of an earthquake which killed at least 23 people, including 20 children crushed when their school collapsed.

Emergency crews in Italy are still clawing through the remains of a nursery school levelled by an earthquake to find buried children.