Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi, the disgraced former Italian prime minister, will not have to serve the final 45 days of a one-year community service order he received for tax fraud, a judge ruled Feb. 2.
      
Media tycoon Berlusconi, 78, has been serving the order by helping out with Alzheimer's patients at the Cesano Boscone care home near Milan every Friday since last May.
      

Putin sends New Year's greetings to Serbian counterpart

MOSCOW -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has congratulated the upcoming New Year and Christmas holidays to his Serbian counterpart Tomislav Nikolic.

Namely, both nations celebrate Christmas on January 7, according to the calendar used by the Orthodox Church.

Just as defense trade with Italy prospered in the 2000s when then-PM Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Silvio Berlusconi enjoyed a close personal friendship, French arms makers may benefit from Erdoğan’s new-found alliance with President François Hollande For much of the 2000s, when prime ministers Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Silvio Berlusconi did not hide their “personal friendship” and Italy w

AC Milan have fired coach Clarence Seedorf after less than five months in charge and replaced him with youth team boss Filippo Inzaghi.

"AC Milan have dismissed coach Clarence Seedorf and handed over the first team to Filippo Inzaghi until June 30, 2016," said the Serie A club in a statement on June 9.