US President George W Bush is scheduled to shake hands with new California governor-elect Arnold Schwarzenegger today, the first time the pair have met since Schwarzenegger’s triumph at the polls last week

RON ZIEGLER, the press secretary who famously called the Watergate break-in a third-rate burglary and was the voice of the Nixon administration during the biggest political scandal in American history, has died of a heart attack. He was 63.