After 12 days of hospitalization, Silvio Berlusconi left the intensive care unit of Milan's San Raffaele Hospital yesterday. The former premier had arrived at the facility last April 5 to treat a lung infection that arose as part of chronic myelomonocytic leukemia. The positive evolution of treatment, which was highlighted last Thursday in the bulletin released by professors Alberto Zangrillo -- who is also Berlusconi's personal physician -- and Fabio Ciceri, allowed the go-ahead for doctors to transfer Berlusconi to a room in the solvent ward, two floors above the intensive care unit. Caution for the delicate health of the 86-year-old former premier certainly remains a must, but the move to ordinary hospitalization certainly bodes well. (Photo by paz.ca)