Briefs, December 29, 2012
Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi must pay his second wife, Veronica Lario, €3 million (HK$30.8 million) a month in alimony but gets to keep their estate.
ROME - Former Italian prime minister Silvio Berlusconi must pay his second wife, Veronica Lario, €3 million (HK$30.8 million) a month in alimony but gets to keep their estate. Lario said she was divorcing the media mogul in 2009, citing his presence at the 18th birthday party of a Naples girl and his fondness for younger women. Berlusconi, 76, has just become engaged to a woman nearly 50 years his junior. AP
LONDON - England has had its wettest year on record in 2012, the Met Office said. About 1,096 millimetres of rain fell in England from January 1 to December 26, the most for any year since records began in 1910. Records were broken in northern and eastern England, the Midlands and east Anglia. Overall, the UK had 1,291.2 millimetres of rain on average, just 46 millimetres below the record set in 2000. Bloomberg