By: Henes Pitt | 2011-11-10 | News and society After three terms in office as the Italy's longest-serving post-war Prime Minister as well as one of the country’s richest men, Silvio Berlusconi confirmed on Wednesday, November 9, 2011 that he would resign. Silvio Berlusconi has conquered Italian politics for 17 years. He has been indicted over 20 times and currently stands trial for four different convictions. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-11-10 | Politics In a long-delayed move that doomed his third government, Silvio Berlusconi vowed to resign as Italy's longest-serving prime minister after losing majority in lower house of parliament and key economic reforms have been approved. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-11-14 | News and society Economist Mario Monti, a former member of the European Commission, was nominated Sunday by Italian president Giorgio Napolitano to serve as Italy’s Prime Minister in replacing of Silvio Berlusconi. Mr. Berlusconi resigned while the country is facing financial crisis and the respected economist Monti accepted this mandate to establish a new government in Italy in order to keep the country from being dragged under by Europe’s debt crisis. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-03-02 | News and society Apart from being the Prime Minister of Italy and third richest man in the country, Silvio Berlusconi also owns AC Milan – the most officially recognized international titles. Recently, Silvio Berlusconi has celebrated his 25 years in helm of AC Milan. Thursday, 20th of February 1986 is an important day in history of Associazione Calcio Milan when businessman Silvio Berlusconi bought the club after a fascinating negotiation with the former owner Giuseppe Farina. Buying Milan in danger of bankruptcy-bound and scandal-ridden, the successful businessman who owns the Fininvest group with six-thousand employees, “is the ideal solution for the future of Milan”. 25 marvelous years has passed, let see the most memorable moments of the Silvio Berlusconi and the club. read more
By: Ritika Sharma | 2011-11-10 | Politics After losing parliamentary majority on Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has promised to resign, provided parliament approves “economic reforms promised to the European Union.” read more
By: Gianni Truvianni | 2011-03-09 | Commentary An article about Italian Prime Minister’s recent comments about the color of Barrack Obama’s skin, which though perhaps silly were not intended to cause offense of any kind to either Obama himself or any other member of the Negro race. read more
By: John M. | 2010-01-27 | Current Events Two exit polls indicated today that challenger Romano Prodi`s centre-left coalition was set to beat Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi`s forces in parliamentary elections in Italy. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2010-10-27 | News and society Italy may face sanctions if this country does not clean up the 2,400 tons of trash which have piled up in the streets of Naples. This is Italy’s latest garbage crisis. Protesters in Terzigno protested trash at a local dump and plans to set up a new one in Vesuvio National Park by torching vehicles, burning Italian flags, and hurling stones at police. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-06 | Politics On 5 August, Thai House of Representatives officially elected Yingluck Shinwatra, 44, sister former Prime Minister of Thailand Thaksin Shinawatra, as the 28th prime minister and also the first female prime minister in the history of this country. read more
By: Jenny Fox | 2012-05-23 | Reference & Education Few years ago education was sacred and students had certain rights and even privileges. Unfortunately, everything changes and not in the best direction. For example, Italy, that always has been one of the main symbols of exceptional university education and exciting student life, experienced a real social disaster in November, 2011. The next day after new Italian government was formed, there took read more
By: Paul Davis | 2010-04-04 | Politics The Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto assassination is the first bit of blowback for Pakistan's military leader & President Musharraf opposing democracy in Pakistan. President Bush is also guilty for foreign policy failures and not entering Pakistan with U.S. troops long ago before it got messy. It seems Iraq was the preferred deadly diversion. read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-11-22 | News and society Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has been booed at the martial arts contest in Moscow at the weekend while TV coverage shows that he is being cheered at the Olimpisky stadium. At the moment when Vladimir Putin stepped into the ring at the end of a fight and gave a short speech congratulating Emelianenko on his win on Sunday between Russian fighter Fedor Emelianenko and his American opponent, Jeff Monson, opponents of Vladimir Putin started began booing and hissing read more
By: Mary Rose | 2011-08-20 | News and society A suicide bomb blast took place at a mosque packed with more than 300 prayers in northwest Pakistan on Friday afternoon, 19 August 2011, left at least 50 dead and 100 other injured. read more