Photo Gallery Burlesque-oni's Long Exit
Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is once again in the news for all the wrong reasons. It recently emerged that his office made a phone call to have charges dropped against an under-age prostitute who had been arrested for theft.
A Christmas crib displayed in Naples, with nativity figures depicting Berlusconi in his underwear and Ruby, the young woman at the center of the latest scandal to involve the Italian leader.
Gianfranco Fini, president of the Italian Chamber of Deputies, the lower house, has said his right-wing party no longer wants to support Berlusconi.
Berlusconi's exploits have become the focus of ridicule and satire. This parodic sculpture was shown in a festival in the Spanish city of Valencia in March.
And the Italian leader was also featured on a float during Carnival in Cologne earlier this year.
