BRITISH Defence Secretary Geoffrey Hoon was unable last night to support John Howard's assertion on Monday that one of three vehicles found in northern Iraq was a "mobile biological weapons facility".

But Mr Bush, if a recent survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project is any guide, has become the most unpopular person on earth.

Mr Cook said it was striking that hundreds of scientists involved in the alleged programme to build weapons of mass destruction had been interviewed and none of them had revealed any details of any such programme.

Monkeys at the bottom of the social dominance hierarchy are more prone to cocaine addiction, say researchers. But they caution against making direct comparisons with humans.

"What we've done is reactive and predictable," he said. "Some clown tries to blow up a 767 over the Atlantic using his shoe, now we're all looking at shoes. Thank God he didn't have that bomb hidden in his knickers."

The European Court of Human Rights has suggested that to deny lifers the consideration of change and the chance of parole is "inhuman and degrading," and of the Western European nations, only England does. It has all of about 20 such prisoners.

Cmdr. Brian Grady, the staff psychiatrist at guantomo medical facility, said in a recent interview that most prisoners suffering from depression brought their symptoms with them