THE GUARDIAN: Officials must 'rediscover moral roots', says pontiff, as Italian PM digs in amid growing evidence of sexual misconductProsecutors investigating Silvio Berlusconi were today told that he would not answer their questions as a witness came forward with new, apparently damaging evidence against him.
The evidence came from Nadia Macri, a prostitute who went to a police station in Milan to give a statement. Late on Thursday, she told a television interviewer she had been with Karima el-Mahroug, the teenager at the centre of the Berlusconi affair, at a party in the Italian prime minister's mansion that became an orgy.
Macri said that on 24 April last year the then 17-year-old Mahroug, known as Ruby Rubacuori (Ruby the Heartstealer), was dancing topless and a bit drunk round a pole in a specially equipped room at Berlusconi's home outside Milan. In a remark which may have been aimed at Italy's beleaguered prime minister, Pope Benedict XVI told an audience of police officers that public officials must "rediscover their spiritual and moral roots". >>> John Hooper in Rome | Friday, January 21, 2011
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Model in Milan prostitution investigation admits sleeping with Berlusconi: The sex scandal engulfing Silvio Berlusconi deepened when, for the first time, one of the women named in a prostitution investigation admitted that she had sex with the prime minister. >>> Nick Squires, Rome | Saturday, January 22, 2011
