Titter ye not

Italian leader Silvio Berlusconi has been accused of covering up the nudity of a painting used as the backdrop for a press conference. The painting, by the 18th century Venetian master Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, was chosen by Berlusconi himself but right in the middle was the exposed nipple of the subject 'floating like a halo', according to Italian newspaper La Stampa. It was all too much for the Italian authorities who have retouched the painting to hide the nipple, according to the Guardian, Independent, Telegraph and Daily Mail.