Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has provoked a fierce political debate in Italy after complaining he lacked the power of former fascist dictator Benito Mussolini as head of the government.
Mr Berlusconi who has reputation for public gaffes inside and outside Italy made his comments at a news conference in Paris on Thursday. “I will dare to quote you a phrase from someone considered a dictator, a great, powerful dictator, Benito Mussolini,” he said.
“In his diary, I recently read this phrase: ‘They say I have power. It isn’t true. Maybe my party officials do. But I don’t know. All I can do is say to my horse go right or left. And I have to be happy with that’.”
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Ban on noise in China for kids to study
Beijing, May 28: Local governments in a few provinces in China have introduced a ban on noise in an effort to help students prepare for the national college entrance examinations.
In Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, anyone making excessive noise till June 14 will face fines as high as 50,000 yuan. The ban was also implemented in Fujian province and in Chongqing. The ban aims to protect high school students from distracting noises at night while they cram for the examinations, scheduled from June 7, Global Times reported. The national examination scores determine whether high school graduates are entitled to further higher education. At least 100 officers have been given the responsibility to enforce the rule. —IANS
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Indian-origin man faces charges of Internet fraud
Chicago, May 28: An Indian-origin man, along with two others, has been indicted here on charges that they duped Internet users in more than 60 countries into buying fake software products of more than $100 million.
According to the 26 count indictment returned by a federal grand jury, Shailesh Kumar P. Jain, Bjorn Daniel Sundin and James Reno deceived Internet users into falsely believing that their computers were infected with “malware” or had other critical errors to induce them to purchase “scareware” software products that had limited or no ability to remedy the purported, but non-existent, defects.
The trio placed fake advertisements about their products on various legitimate companies’ websites.
—PTI