TWO of the most exciting talents of last year’s hurdling division combined for a thriller over fences at Newbury as Bobs Worth passed Cue Card by a short-head in the Fuller’s London Pride Novices’ Chase.

Colin Tizzard reports Cue Card in “brilliant order” as he bids to get favourite backers off to the perfect start in the Stan James Supreme Novices’ Hurdle at Cheltenham.

IRELAND’S luck in the Weatherbys Champion Bumper ran out when Colin Tizzard’s Cue Card proved much too good for his rivals.

America’s top intelligence official took down a government website with captured Saddam Hussein-era Iraqi documents, after questions were raised about whether it provided too much information about making atomic bombs.

US President George Bush has full confidence in Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, even if others dislike the Pentagon chief’s “bedside manner,” a top White House official said.

US President George Bush calls Joshua Bolten, his new chief of staff, a “creative policy thinker”.

THE US government last night denounced North Korea’s “bullying” after reports it had launched a short-range missile into the Sea of Japan, in a test.

President George Bush's Chief of Staff Andrew Card has declared the President the winner of the US presidential election "by a decisive margin of victory".

Senator John Kerry returned to domestic issues today, criticising cuts in after-school programs, health care coverage and jobs lost in the last four years.

A former apartheid policeman who helped jail Nelson Mandela more than 30 years ago today returned to him two notebooks of letters written in prison.

French actor Gerard Depardieu became the victim of scathing critics when they wrongly deemed his new movie Last Tango in Moscow a remake of late star Marlon Brandon's similarly-titled erotic classic.

A British Airways pilot almost let the cat out of the bag over US President George Bush’s secret visit to Baghdad.

In a cramped nuclear shelter deep beneath the White House, President George Bush stared across a spare wooden table and told his national security team, "Get the troops ready."