The enter-right coalition appear to have won about 37% of the parliamentary vote with the populist 5-Star Movement getting about 31%.

Preliminary results show Italy facing hung parliament

A bitter campaign season has been dominated by the issues of immigration and youth unemployment

Campaigns end as Italians prepare to go to the polls

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi will stand trial on corruption charges, a Milan judge has ruled.

The former Italian prime minister's condition is not believed to be life-threatening.

Ahead of the announcement on Silvio Berlusconi's political future, a look at some of the former Italian prime minister's most famous gaffes.

Remember the Italy elections? They are still going on and the bloke who had never been elected in the first place is still Prime Minister.

Just as it seemed Berlusconi was rehabilitating himself with the Italians, the former prime minister made comments in support of Mussolini.

Italian politics is turbulent at the best of times, but with a general election around the corner could Silvio Berlusconi be on the rise?

Inconceivable as it may seem to be a candidate in an election while facing such serious charges, this is Italy and this is Berlusconi.