Fiat and Chrysler took a major step towards forming a global auto giant on Thursday with a $1.3-billion deal increasing Fiat's stake in the US firm to 46 per cent.

Fiat said the 889-million-euro dea

Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Monday accused Italy's judges of being out to get him and laughed off his ongoing sex crime trial as he returned to court on fraud charges in a separate trial.

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A smiling close-up of Silvio Berlusconi and Moroccan teenager Karima El Mahroug together would have been a priceless picture for photographers attending the Italian prime minister's trial on underage

Berlusconi sex trial delayed until May 31.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was not in attendance on Wednesday as his trial on charges of buying sex with an underage prostitute and abuse of

Silvio Berlusconi appeared before a judge for the first time in eight years on Monday over allegations of business fraud - part of a web of legal woes for the billionaire Italian prime minister.

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An Italian minister resigned in the middle of an embezzlement trial on Monday, dealing a fresh blow to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi as he faces one of the most difficult periods of his two-year pr

The northern Italian region of Lombardy is set to pay pregnant women in “economic difficulty” a fee of 4,500 euros if they reject abortion, conservative regional president Roberto Formigoni has said.