AT least 122 firearms from a botched US undercover operation have been found at crime scenes in Mexico or intercepted en route to drug cartels there, according to a Republican congressional report issued last night.

Toyota president Akio Toyoda will attend a US government hearing next week about the car maker’s massive recalls.

US treasury secretary Timothy Geithner is to face a congressional grilling about suppressed details about deals that funnelled billions to big investment banks while he was president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

The chairman of the House of Representatives’ Armed Services Committee and two Republican colleagues have asked the Pentagon to remove embedded CNN reporters in Iraq after the network broadcast a video showing snipers targeting American soldiers.

CIA director Porter Goss resigned suddenly, nudged out after a turmoil-filled 18 months at the spy agency as it struggled to forge a new identity in an era of intelligence blunders and government overhauls.

Embattled California governor Gray Davis challenged Arnold Schwarzenegger in vain to a debate “right here, right now”, accusing the Terminator star of distorting his record.

Arnold Schwarzenegger has delayed a decision on whether to run for governor of California until he has finished promoting his new film Terminator 3.

SADDAM HUSSEIN’S son-in-law Jamal Mustafa Sultan Abdullah al-Tikriti has surrendered in Syria and was being brought back to Iraq, it was disclosed last night.

Two US congressmen today said President Bashar Assad assured them Syria will not grant asylum to Iraqis wanted for war crimes and will expel any Iraqis who cross into the country.