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The least-wanted list: Britain has released the names of 16 people it has barred from the country for allegedly fostering “extremism or hatred.” The list includes five Americans—among them, conservative shock jock Michael Savage—along with Palestinian militants, Russian skinheads, and neo-Nazis. Savage, who is heard on more than 350 radio stations nationwide, said he plans to sue British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, who released the list, for defamation. “She’s linking me with mass murderers who are in prison for killing Jewish children?” Savage said. “For my speech?” In addition to Savage, who is notorious for railing against Muslims, the banned Americans include a Baptist preacher from Kansas and his daughter, known for their anti-gay agitation; a leader of a small neo-Nazi group; and a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard.

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Divorce looms: Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his wife, former actress Veronica Lario, traded insults through the media this week as their 19-year marriage disintegrated in full public view. “I can’t stay with someone who cavorts with minors,” said Lario, 52, referring to Berlusconi’s appearance last week at a girl’s 18th birthday party, at which he gave the girl an expensive necklace. “My marriage is over.” Berlusconi, 72 and a notorious womanizer, insisted that the girl was simply the daughter of a friend and demanded that his wife apologize publicly. Italian newspapers have begun speculating how much of Berlusconi’s $6.5 billion media empire Lario will get in a divorce settlement.