Italy's Berlusconi back on trial for tax fraud

MILAN (AP) -- Premier Silvio Berlusconi went back on trial Monday for alleged tax fraud, the first of several court cases to resume after Italy's Constitutional Court watered down an immunity bill sparing the premier from trial.

Prosecutors say Berlusconi's Mediaset media empire purchased TV rights for U.S. movies through two offshore companies and falsely declared the costs to reduce its tax bill.

Berlusconi, who wasn't in court Monday, has denied the allegations. The case was immediately adjourned until April 11, when Berlusconi may appear, lawyers said.

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What It Was Like in Tahrir Square When Mubarak Resigned

The mood on Tahrir Square is absolutely jubilant. As many people are saying "Welcome to the New Egypt."

After news that the army was going to be taking over, and that the parliament was stepping down, Egyptians just turned out on the streets en mass. We had people hugging and singing, they've been playing patriotic songs here on the square, with people bowing in prayer.

The familiar chants of "the people and the army are one" have come true for many people, and with the army in charge, people are really celebrating. It might seem odd for such celebrations after an army takeover, but in fact, that's the way the regime they were trying to oust came to power.

Drug shortages forcing some risky alternatives

Unprecedented shortages of injectable drugs have forced doctors to resort to medications that are less safe or postpone or cancel procedures, often at the last minute, according to the Food and Drug Administration and health care groups.

Anesthesiology and oncology have been hit particularly hard. Last month, the only U.S. maker of Pentothal, used for 70 years to induce anesthesia, said it had abandoned plans to resume production, which it had halted a year and a half earlier.

Boehner: Obama has to cut credit cards, reduce spending

House Speaker John Boehner stopped short today of saying majority Republicans will refuse to raise the debt limit and strongly urged President Obama and Democrats to work with them to cut spending.

Boehner suggested on Fox News Sunday there is no appetite to see the United States default on its loans if Congress doesn't pass an increase in the debt limit.

"I don't think it's even a question on the table," Boehner said in his first Sunday talk show interview since becoming speaker this month.

South Korea Rejects North's Request to Move Up Military Talks Date

South Korea says it has turned down a request from North Korea to move up the date of preliminary military talks between the two countries.




Officials said Monday that Pyongyang had asked to hold the preparatory talks on Tuesday, 10 days earlier than the planned beginning of negotiations at the border village of Panmunjom. They said the earlier date would not provide enough time to prepare for the first face-to-face talks since the North launched an artillery attack on a South Korean island November 23.