Alfredo Robledo

MILAN (Reuters) - Twenty years after the "Clean Hands" graft scandal swept away Italy's old political system and sent hundreds of people to jail, corruption in the euro zone's third largest economy is worse than ever and has seeped deep into society.

LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Italian police have raided two properties and launched a fraud probe into ex-hedge fund manager Alberto Micalizzi, a researcher at Italy's Bocconi University, who ran hedge fund DD Growth Premium until its collapse during the credit crisis.

LONDON/ZURICH (Reuters) - Italian police have raided two properties and launched a fraud probe into ex-hedge fund manager Alberto Micalizzi, a researcher at Italy's Bocconi University, who ran hedge fund DD Growth Premium until its collapse during the credit crisis.

A judge in Milan ordered banks JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, Depfa, UBS and 13 people to stand trial for alleged fraud in the sale of derivative instruments, the prosecutor told AFP on Wednesday.

MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with autism by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

MILAN (Reuters) - A Milan court convicted three Google Inc executives on Wednesday for violating the privacy of an Italian boy with Down's syndrome by letting a video of him being bullied be posted on the site in 2006.

Italian prosecutor seeks jail for Google execs for video of disabled youth being abused. An Italian prosecutor demanded jail time Wednesday for four Google executives charged in absentia with defamation and violating privacy for allowing a video to be posted online showing an autistic youth being abused.

Magistrates protest after probe-plagued Berlusconi's latest barbs against Italian judiciary. With fraud and corruption trials looming, Premier Silvio Berlusconi is sparring with Italy's magistrates, who threatened on Thursday to go on strike to protest his branding them as communists targeting a billionaire.

Italian magistrates protest Berlusconi's latest attack on the judiciary, threaten to strike. A long-running battle between Silvio Berlusconi and the Italian judiciary flared up again Thursday as the main magistrates' association held protests in courtrooms to denounce the premier's latest attack on prosecutors and judges.

ROME (Reuters) - Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi gave a foretaste of how he may defend himself when he goes back on trial for corruption next month, attacking the judicial system as overrun by "communists" out to destroy him.