THE TELEGRAPH: The Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi was left bloodied and shaken after he was punched in the face as he left a political rally in Milan.
The 73-year-old premier collapsed after he was apparently struck in the face by a man who was clutching a small statue of the Duomo, the city's world-famous cathedral.
A shaken Mr Berlusconi was quickly dragged to his waiting car by his security guards and driven to hospital.
Doctors said he had not suffered concussion and had insisted "I'm fine, I'm fine, don't worry about me" as he was stretchered in from his car. But they said he had bled profusely from his mouth and two of his teeth were loose, one of them fractured. >>> Nick Pisa in Rome | Sunday, Decemebr 13, 2009
