Revelations that US President George Bush's younger brother has a $US400,000 ($A553,000) a year sinecure with a Chinese firm partly owned by the son of a former Chinese president have thrown a new sleaze factor into the suddenly problem-beset US-China relationship.

South Australian police investigating child sex abuse within the Anglican Church say that at least six men suspected of pedophilia continue to work within the church.

The next time you stand, hand on your heart, and sing "America the Beautiful," remind yourself that we owe those towering words to Katharine Lee Bates, a lesbian.

British police hunting for international terrorists detained two men on Thursday, one of whom is believed to have connections with al Qaeda and whose arrest "could be pretty big" according to a security source.

Saddam could not be organizing the attacks himself, Rumsfeld said. "He is too occupied with hiding."


The Bush administration decided Tuesday to reduce U.S. loan guarantees to Israel by $289.5-million (U.S.) as a way of registering its disapproval of Israeli actions in the West Bank.