A court in Italy has convicted former premier Silvio Berlusconi of tax fraud and sentenced him to four years in prison. In Italy, cases must pass two levels of appeal before the verdicts are final. Berlusconi is expected to appeal. The conviction is the media mogul's first - other criminal probes and trials ended in acquittal or were thrown out when the statute of limitations expired. Earlier in the week, Berlusconi had announced he would not run for a fourth term. The 76-year-old media mogul was not in the courtroom for the verdict on the case stemming from dealings in his Mediaset business empire. | 
