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<i>Gwynne Dyer:</i> Berlusconi takes populist platform to placate voters

No sex with Berlusconi, says boyfriend

Could a teenage girl topple Berlusconi?

Italian PM faces election heat over model

Italy: Climb every mountain (or take the comfy van)

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Grand designs in Rome

Rome's ancient streets still seem to reverberate with the rhythmical tramping of victorious legions of yesteryear.

NZ's first Maori mayor dies

Soccer: All Whites to take on Italy for first time

Hundreds feared dead as migrant boats sink off Libya

Italian 'Fritzl' was known to police and social workers

'Italy's Fritzl': Girl locked up and abused for 25 years

Vending-fired machine pizza

Maps to be redrawn as borders melt away

NZ doctors to carry out stem cell operations

Shoppers' sweet deal is not what it seems