Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi has been on a rampage against newspapers he doesn't own who bring up his naughty relationship with an 18-year old alleged prostitute mistress. And now his tabloid war has taken an unholy, hell-baiting turn.

It is notoriously difficult for business executives to jump into politics. California Senate hopeful Carly Fiorina's Iranian connection provides a textbook illustration of why.

Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi is suing a left-wing newspaper in Italy, along with papers in France and Spain, and he's looking into a couple in Britain. Why? Because they keep asking him slanderous questions about his ridiculous private life!

Silvio Berlusconi slept with escorts, and his only excuse is that he didn't pay. His wife wants a divorce unless he seeks sex addiction treatment. How is he still Prime Minister? Because Italy is basically a chauvinist wonderland!

With 10% of the votes counted, the presidential election race between Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah is too close to call. Karzai leads by about 10,000 votes. But what should you think about it?

Of course, the Taliban have reportedly executed a couple people for voting and rocket attacks have killed a couple more people, but on the whole it is a very proud day for Afghanistan. Though turnout seems, so far, to be incredibly low, in part because of those concerns about being executed but maybe more because of cynicism.

North Korea is reopening its southern border to allow tourism and Korean family reunions.

Wallace Souza is a modern-day renaissance man. He is a Brazillian state legislator, a TV crime show host, and a drug trafficking murderer. Hiram Monseratte, step up your game!

American Entrepreneur, have you heard of Dubai? It is a capitalist paradise! A veritable Galt's Gulch of the Gulf. A playground for the wealthy built on cheap foreign labor, oil, tourism, and real estate speculation? What could go wrong!

Twitter continues to be flaky today. Par for the course on the overcrowded microblogging service, right? But Twitter claims it is the victim of elaborate hack attacks that "appear to have been geopolitical in motivation." That's actually true!

57-year-old Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin once again released to the public 20 pictues of him being super-manly, riding horses shirtless and walking along a river on a camping trip.

The New York Times is reporting tonight that Russian submarines have been lurking in waters off the eastern coast of the country for the last few days, aggressive military actions not seen since the end of the Cold War.

Yes, there are audio recordings of Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi with prostitutes, and yes he asks one to participate in a three-way, but the most amusing fact here is that Berlusconi named one of his beds after Vladimir Putin:

An Iranian doctor who witnessed the murder of Neda Agha-Soltan has identified her killer.

Our thoughts exactly: "[Hillary Clinton] professes to be amused, if baffled, by a recent column on the blog Daily Beast in which Tina Brown wrote, 'It's time for Barack Obama to let Hillary Clinton take off her burqa.'" [NYT]

Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis has a new job: lobbying for the post-coup government of Honduras!

Barack Obama praised Vladimir Putin's "extraordinary work" during a meeting at Putin's home near Moscow.

Here is the German Economy Minister, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, reading a fairy tale about the exchange rate to some children at the behest of "the German Center for Fairy Tale Culture." Ok, Germany! Can you imagine if Geithner did this?

The situation is only getting worse for Iranians contesting the June 12 election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Kim Jong-Il basically threatened to nuke America Thursday at a massive rally in North Korea.