SILVIO Berlusconi’s oldest daughter said she was not “surprised” by the Italian Premier’s attendance at a girl’s 18th birthday party, which prompted her mother to seek a divorce, a report says.
In a Vanity Fair interview, Barbara Berlusconi, 25, weighed in publicly for the first time on her 72-year-old father’s controversial ties to the teenage aspiring [...]
August 5, 2009 | Posted in
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A CALIFORNIA man has been convicted of making racist threats against President Barack Obama during last year’s presidential campaign, justice officials said.
Walter Bagdasarian faces up to 10 years in federal prison when he is sentenced on October 26 by a judge in San Diego.
Bagdasarian was found guilty on two counts of making a threat against [...]
July 28, 2009 | Posted in
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THE Prime Minister’s calls for “detailed programmatic specificity” confuses more than German translators, Malcolm Turnbull says
In Berlin for a five-day European tour, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd challenged German translators with his “Rudd-speak”.
While addressing German press and Chancellor Angela Merkel, Mr Rudd said it was unlikely any progress would emerge from the Major Economies Forum (MEF) [...]
July 9, 2009 | Posted in
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THE leader of the far-right British National Party (BNP), recently elected to the European Parliament, says the European Union should sink boats carrying African immigrants trying to reach the continent.
Nick Griffin, one of two BNP members elected to the Brussels parliament in May, told the BBC that those on board would be thrown a life [...]
July 8, 2009 | Posted in
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ITALIAN Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has dismissed months of allegations about his sex life as “all lies” as he prepared to host the Group of Eight summit in central Italy.
“They are all lies, from the underage girls onward,” Mr Berlusconi said today when he was asked whether the scandals that have been dogging him since [...]
July 7, 2009 | Posted in
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TWO Greek sheep herders have been arrested for attaching two Bangladeshi migrant workers to their motorcycles and dragging them through the street for allegedly stealing their animals.
The herders, who did not tell police about their stolen sheep, went to a migrant workers’ camp at Manolada in southern Greece about 50km from Patras on Saturday and [...]
June 20, 2009 | Posted in
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