recommend
ed that investigators should not be granted a search warrant for Mr Berlusconi's home.
This is the World News from the BBC.
An official report in the United States says the American banking crisis that rocked the global economy three years ago was caused by the failure of regulators and
excessive
risk-taking on the part of the financial industry. The investigating panel said the crisis was avoidable and
resulted directly from
human action and inaction. But the panel divided along party lines with Republican members producing their own separate reports.
The authorities in Chile are to launch the first-ever investigation into the death of the socialist President Salvador Allende in 1973. His body was found in the presidential palace after it was attacked by troops and planes during the coup that brought Gen Augusto Pinochet to power. Here's Gideon Long.
The circumstances surrounding Salvador Allende's death have always been hotly debated. The most widely accepted version of it is that on 11 September, 1973 as Gen Pinochet's forces stormed the presidential palace where he was
shelter
ing, Mr Allende committed suicide. A member of Mr Allende's medical staff who was in the palace at the time has confirmed that version of events, and the former president's family has accepted it. But the death has never been formally investigated, and some of Mr Allende's supporters on the political left insist he was shot dead by the soldiers.