Berlusconi: I will live to be 120

Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi today vowed not to quit, promising to hang in there as long as he's needed. And that could be a long time. He boasted playfully he'll live to 120.

Only a few days earlier, at a dinner for foreign correspondents, Mr Berlusconi seemed to be pre-announcing his eventual exit from power, telling the reporters that he has designated his justice minister as political heir, although he held out a role for himself as a kind of father-figure for his conservative Freedom People party.