A group of six Nigerian men and one Zambian have appeared in court in South Africa, accused of
impersonating
doctors and also charged with fraud, corruption and indecent assault. A local healthcare group said it’s concerned that thousands of patients may have been misdiagnosed. The men did not enter a plea.
A judge in the Italian city of Milan has ordered the Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to stand trial on charges that he paid an underage girl for sex. Mr Berlusconi is alleged to have paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl. In Italian law that’s underage to be a prostitute. Duncan Kennedy reports from Rome.
A judge in Milan says there’s enough evidence to indict Silvio Berlusconi on two counts. The first is that he paid a 17-year-old prostitute for sex. The second is that he used the power of his office to get her release from police custody after she was
picked up
on an unrelated theft charge. Both Mr Berlusconi and the teenager, known as Ruby, denied they had sex. Mr Berlusconi admits he did call the police on her behalf, but only because he was told Ruby was the niece of the then president of Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, and that he was helping a fellow leader. The head of Italy’s main opposition party has tonight called for Mr Berlusconi to resign.
The Spanish Cycling Federation has cleared the reigning Tour de France champion, Alberto Contador, of using performance-
enhancing