Silvio Berlusconi

Silvio Berlusconi is at the centre of further sordid revelations about his private life after the Italian leader was caught boasting of having sex with eight women in one night.

The European Central Bank is in crisis after Juergen Stark resigns, apparently in protest at the bank’s controversial policy of buying bonds issued by ailing eurozone members.

Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says eurozone debt problems are caused by a “crisis of faith” in the markets, as he seeks to reassure Europe that Italy is financially solid.

I am breathing in the bracing air of the Abruzzo hills but as I write this Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, the first lady of France, is not. The demure Sarah Brown is here, and the funky Michelle Obama, but Carla Bruni – a former naked model – has not yet joined this year’s G8 festivities, in an…