Italy PM's final trial day looms
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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's four-year corruption trial is expected to draw to a close on Friday.
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An attempt by Italy's former Prime  Minister Silvio Berlusconi to delay his corporate fraud trial  suffered a setback on Wednesday with a decision that the trial  judge should stay on the case.
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President Bush and Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi are meeting in Washington next week, the White House announced Friday as the Italian leader's nearly five-year-old trial on corruption charges neared an end.
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ROME, Nov 12  - A state prosecutor called Friday on a Milan court to impose an eight-year jail sentence on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on charges of bribing judges.
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Italy's president will decide on Saturday who should now lead the government, leaving acting Prime Minister Romano Prodi in suspense over whether he will be asked to return to power or sent into political retirement.
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Italy's president will decide on Saturday who should now lead Italy's government after the shock resignation of Prime Minister Romano Prodi.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will submit his centre-left government to what may be its final test by asking parliament on Tuesday for a confidence vote after the defection of an ally pushed it the brink of collapse.
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Silvio Berlusconi and David Mills go on trial on Tuesday over an alleged bribe paid to the British lawyer to keep quiet about the former Italian prime minister's media business dealings.
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi went  to see the president on Thursday, witnesses said, as he decided  whether to face a Senate confidence vote, which he is expected  to lose, or to resign after being weakened by defections.
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A prosecutor yesterday called for Silvio Berlusconi to be given an eight-year jail sentence as his four-year trial for allegedly bribing judges neared culmination.
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A look at some of the major cases against Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi:
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Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will brave a confidence vote in the Senate on Thursday despite expectations that he will lose and be forced to resign.
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A new trial on corruption charges against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi opened Tuesday, just as the opposition leader is seeking to capitalize on weaknesses in the governing coalition to get back into power.Comment
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A new trial on corruption charges against former Premier Silvio Berlusconi opened Tuesday, just as the opposition leader is seeking to capitalize on weaknesses in the governing coalition to get back into power.
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Italy&#39;s billionaire Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, faces the most testing judgment of his political life today, when three judges in Milan are expected to decide whether he is guilty of corruption.
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A Milan court deliberated for a second day Friday in the long-running corruption trial of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, with the Italian leader risking a criminal conviction on charges that he bribed judges in the 1980s.
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Italian PM Romano Prodi will face a vote of confidence in parliament after a key coalition ally resigned.