A MILAN court yesterday acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges - a major victory in the billionaire business baron’s decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing prosecutors.

A Milan court today acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi of corruption charges – a major victory in the billionaire business baron’s decade-long battle with legal woes he blamed on left-wing prosecutors.

Italian judges started deliberations today in Premier Silvio Berlusconi’s four-year-long bribery trial in Milan.

SOME corruption, a little fraud, big money, powerful men and suspicious deaths — Italian politics often has many of the ingredients of a dramatic opera.