Some piece of various articles from the Times, the Guardian and the Economist, because Italian press is not free (I'm not saying it, it's written here.)
My comments and opinion are in the ( )

Veronica Lario, Mr Berlusconi’s wife, announced their divorce with the words, “I cannot be with a man who spends time with under-age women”.
There is increasing concern over the damage that Silvio Berlusconi is inflicting on Italy’s image at a time when the country is an important player on the world stage and holds the chairmanship of the G8.
The Italian Prime Minister’s popularity ratings have been unaffected so far by his public divorce battle. According to a recent poll, they stand at 66 per cent, despite insinuations by his wife, Veronica Lario, concerning his relationship with — or to — Noemi Letizia.
Ms Lario has said that he is “unwell” and “needs help” but many Italians admire Mr Berlusconi for his exuberant energy and drive as a self-made billionaire. They see him as “one of us”, despite his wealth.
“He is popular because he is not a snob, like the leaders of the Left,” said Il Giornale — his own newspaper.
(I humbly think he is quite snob. He is arrogant and he doesn't know how real Italian people live. He doesn't know the crisis and the difficulties.)
Ms Bonino was applauded on Thursday when she told a studio audience on RAI, the state channel: “Italians, whether they voted for him or not, have the right to have a leader who does not embarrass us at the international level.”
She said that the scandal over Mr Berlusconi’s promotion of showgirls as European Parliament candidates confirmed his lack of respect for women and reinforced a “vulgar macho stereotype which I had hoped was over”. She recalled that two years ago Mr Berlusconi had described Baroness Thatcher, pictured, as una bella gnocca, or “a great piece of pussy”.
(And we have to rememeber that time on tv when Berlusconi was talking about disoccupation of young people and a girl asked him: "How can I live in the future if there is no job for us?" and talked about problems of disoccupation and women. Berlusconi replied: "You are a beautiful girl, you'll find a man rich as my son to marry". If this is respect for women...)
Another danger for Mr Berlusconi is that, if his divorce is protracted, Italians will take sides, and some of his female followers will sympathise with his wife, particularly since she claims to have been publicly humiliated by him.
To a greater extent than any other European leader, moreover, Mr Berlusconi has built his political career on his life and lifestyle. He has forged the image of a virtual Superman, enjoying wealth, power and the love and loyalty of a beautiful wife even as he also enjoyed the company of an endless stream of pretty girls.
(Pretty girls are also some of his politics. When Berlusconi was elected he called his female ministers "his babies" - "le sue bambine".)
The opposition leader, Dario Franceschini of the Democratic party, keeps saying that he doesn't want to profit politically from such personal issues, but of course, he does.
(Indeed, it's a great occasion. Politics can insult each other and cover with gossip our real problems. Good work, people.)
Italian premier believes his wife fell into a trap organised by his political opponents.
(And this is PRICELESS.)

(When I read this new, in our Italian newspaper, I felt an overwhelming shame. Shame of being Italian.)
A proposal to introduce racial segregation on trains, trams and buses in Milan provoked an outcry from Italian opposition politicians today.
The scheme was put forward by a representative of the anti-immigrant Northern League, the prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's main ally in government. Matteo Salvini, the league's secretary in Milan, told a rally to launch his party's European election campaign that he wanted "seats or carriages reserved for the Milanese" on local public transport.
Dario Franceschini, leader of Italy's biggest opposition group, the Democratic party, said: "One's thoughts go back to the affair of Rosa Parks, the black woman who refused to give up her place on the bus and inspired Martin Luther King's struggle."
Salvini tried to downplay the row, insisting: "It was just a provocation to say the residents are now in a minority and, as such, need safeguarding." (As if I believe it... Think before speaking.)
But the Italian president, Giorgio Napolitano, spoke of a "worrying" increase in intolerance (And I noticed it. I noticed it in the television, the press and some of my friend, especally my rommate), while the opposition Italy of Principles party called on the government to disown the idea publicly.
However, Berlusconi, whose government is already under attack for its immigration policies after the Italian navy returned to Libya more than 200 boat people without letting them apply for asylum, said: "Salvini himself has said it was a quip, a provocation."
(Well, that's good to hear. Our ministers and politics are only capable of provocations about non-existing problems.)
 

L'AQUILA, Italy — A powerful earthquake in mountainous central Italy knocked down whole blocks of buildings early Monday as residents slept, killing more than 90 people in the country's deadliest quake in nearly three decades. Tens of thousands were homeless and 1,500 were injured.

Ambulances screamed through the medieval city of L'Aquila as firefighters with dogs and a crane worked feverishly to reach people trapped in fallen buildings, including a university dormitory where half a dozen students were believed still inside.

Outside the half-collapsed building, part of the University of L'Aquila, tearful young people huddled together, wrapped in blankets, some still in their slippers after being roused from sleep by the quake. Dozens managed to escape as the dorm walls fell around them but hours after the quake, a body of a male student was pulled from the rubble.

"We managed to come down with other students but we had to sneak through a hole in the stairs as the whole floor came down," said student Luigi Alfonsi, 22. "I was in bed — it was like it would never end as I heard pieces of the building collapse around me."

"There was water gushing out of broken water pipes, and the corridor which led to the stairs was partially blocked when a piece of the wall came down," Alfonsi, his eyes filling with tears and his hands trembling, told The Associated Press.

The quake has also taken a severe toll on the city's prized architectural heritage. L'Aquila was built as a mountain stronghold during the Middle Ages and has many prized Romanesque, Gothic and Renaissance buildings.

Parts of many of the ancient churches and castles in and around the city have collapsed. Centuries-old churches in many isolated villages in the area are believed partly collapsed, and damage to ancient monuments has been reported as far as Rome.

L'Aquila, capital of the Abruzzo region, was near the epicenter about 70 miles (110 kilometers) northeast of Rome. It is a quake-prone region that has had at least nine smaller jolts since the beginning of April. The quake struck at 3:32 a.m. The U.S. Geological Survey said the big quake was magnitude 6.3, but Italy's National Institute of Geophysics put it at 5.8 and more than a dozen aftershocks followed.

At least 91 deaths have been confirmed. The latest toll was announced to parliament in a briefing to lawmakers.

More than 70 people were killed and the death toll was likely to rise, civil protection chief Guido Bertolaso said as rescue crews clawed through the debris of fallen homes. Some 1,500 people were injured.