"We will sign the interim constitution Monday as it stands," Mohammed Hussein Bahr al-Uloum, the son and chief adviser to Mohammed Bahr al-Uloum, the current president of the Iraqi Governing Council, told Reuters.

Glazer's main wealth comes from controlling stakes in two US public companies: Zapata, a holding company in which the Glazer family has 50 per cent of the stock, and Omega Protein, a fish oil maker in which Zapata has 60 per cent. Avram Glazer, Malcolm's son, is chairman of both companies, while Darcie Glazer, Malcolm's daughter, sits on both company boards.

As Ralph Nader pointed out after his candidacy in 2000: 'In essence you don't run for President directly, you ask the media to run you for President. Reaching the voters relies almost entirely on how the media choose to perceive you and your campaign.'

Admiral Sir Michael Boyce, who led Britain's forces to war in Iraq last year, has dramatically broken his silence about the legal crisis which engulfed the Government on the eve of battle.
the former Chief of Defence Staff has revealed how Britain went to the brink of a constitutional crisis after he demanded 'unequivocal... legal top cover' before agreeing to allow British troops to fight.
His demand for a formal assurance that a war would be legal came on 10 March 2003, even as British forces massed on the Iraq border, and the advice finally giving the all-clear came on 15 March, only five days before fighting began.
The fact that it still took several days during this critical period to give Boyce his assurance provides further evidence of uncertainty in Government about the legality of the war.

THE Howard Government is considering deploying its little-used power over territories to ban homosexuals adopting children in the national capital.
According to Mr Burmester, the federal bill would have to ban adoption by single parents as well as by homosexuals for gay adoption to be stopped in the national capital, since so many gay people already use that route to adopt children.

Convicted con man Peter Foster yesterday went public with the astonishing claim that his former fiancee, style guru Carole Caplin, conducted an intimate relationship with British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Ms. Becker compared the prosecution of Ms. Stewart to criticism of Hillary Rodham Clinton when she was first lady. Women face tougher standards in business and politics, she said, because those arenas are still heavily dominated by men.