Cagliari, Sardinia - In a surprise result Tuesday, Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's conservatives triumphed over Sardinia's centre-left governor and Tiscali internet company-founder, Renato Soru, in the island's regional elections.

With most of the ballots counted, Soru garnered 43 per cent compared to the centre-right candidate Ugo Cappellacci's 52 per cent.

In the weeks ahead of Sunday and Monday's voting, Berlusconi frequently appeared at rallies across Sardinia in a show of solidarity with the relatively unknown Cappellacci.

Rome, Feb. 8: Hindus and Jews have appealed to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to visit a savagely burnt Indian immigrant in a Rome hospital and send out a strong message against xenophobia.

Prominent Hindu American leader Rajan Zed and Jweish community leader Rabbi Jonathan B. Freirich in a statement in Nevada, also asked the Italian Government to provide adequate compensation to Navtej Singh Sidhu who was brutally beaten, insulted and set on fire with petrol while asleep in Nettuno, south of Rome.

Rome - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's government came under fire on Monday for allegedly fostering anti-immigrant sentiment after an Indian man was brutally beaten and set alight at the weekend.

Opposition leader Walter Veltroni said the attack was due to "xenophobic preaching and a climate of hate and fear" created by Berlusconi's centre-right administration.

The 35-year-old immigrant, from the northern Indian state of Punjab, was attacked early on Sunday while he was sleeping on a bench at a railway station in Nettuno, some
60 kilometres south of Rome.

London, Jan 26 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has fuelled a furore yet again by saying that women in the country were so beautiful that they needed military escorts to avoid being raped.

And now, the Itlalian premier has landed in soup over his comments, which came in response to questions about his proposal to deploy 300,000 soldiers in the streets to fight crime.

The move came in line with a series of violent attacks, including a rape in Rome on New Year''s Eve and another outside the capital.

Rome - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi says he has surprised his grandchildren with an early Christmas present: a Superman-like doll with facial features resembling his own.

"My grandchildren now really feel like the descendants of a super- hero," Berlusconi was quoted as saying Thursday by the online site, Tgcom.

London, Dec 15 : Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's eldest daughter Marina Berlusconi exchanged wedding vows with her ballet dancer beau on December 13.

Silvio''s daughter with first wife Carla Dall''Oglio fell for ballet dancer Maurizio Vanadia when she watched him dance in Swan Lake at Milan''s La Scala.

The occasion also brought Berlusconi's first wife Dall''Oglio, together in the same room for the first time with his second wife, Veronica.