Italy in limbo as Berlusconi refuses to concede elections

With prime minister Silvio Berlusconi refusing to concede defeat in the Italian elections, one of the EU's biggest member states could be left in a state of political limbo for weeks.

Mr Berlusconi, whose centre-right coalition narrowly lost the weekend's elections, is insisting that some 40,000 ballot papers be re-checked.

"The election result has to change because there was widespread fraud," said Mr Berlusconi who is arguing that there are problems particularly with votes from ...