Berlusconi faced charges in the third trial of paying off witnesses to lie in earlier trials, with prosecutors seeking six years in prison along with 10 million euros ($10.68 million) in damages ...

He was probably serious. Mr. Berlusconi died Monday morning at 86 in the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, the city where he was born three years before the start of the Second World War.

Berlusconi was a highly divisive figure who set the mould for other businessmen-turned-politicians like former U.S. president Donald Trump, with a career punctuated by scandals and legal trials.

Silvio Berlusconi may be dead, but his legacy lives on in other brash and populist political leaders, says an Italian sociologist. Berlusconi, a billionaire media mogul and Italy's longest-serving ...

MILAN An Italian judge on Tuesday ordered Premier Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges he paid for sex with a 17-year-old Moroccan girl, then tried to cover it up. Berlusconi has stood ...

Forza Italia leader and former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi arrives for a meeting with Italian President Sergio Mattarella at the Quirinale Palace in Rome, Italy, on Oct. 21.