A Milan court acquitted Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi on corruption charges that have dogged him throughout his term, a ruling he said was ”better late than never”.

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.