A court in Italy has convicted former Premier Silvio Berlusconi of tax fraud and sentenced him to four years in prison.

The conviction on Friday was the 76-year-old media mogul's first in a long seri

The US automaker Chrysler, which is controlled by Fiat of Italy, reported on Thursday a four-fold leap in first quarter profit to $473 million (357 million euros) from $116 million in the same period

World food prices are likely to rise for a third successive month in March, and could gain further beyond that, with expensive oil and chronically low stocks of some key grains putting food inflation

Silvio Berlusconi faces a verdict on bribery charges on Saturday in one of four trials against a once dominant presence in Italian politics who is increasingly harried by legal woes in his old age.

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