Italy's top court asked to rule on Berlusconi judge

Lawyers for Silvio Berlusconi have asked Italy’s top court to overturn a ruling to keep the main judge hearing the trial of the former premier and the estranged husband of British Culture Secretary Tessa Jowell.

Berlusconi and British lawyer David Mills face charges of false accounting, embezzlement and tax fraud over the purchase by Berlusconi’s Mediaset empire of TV rights for US movies.