Fidel Castro today accused US President George Bush of both “authorising and ordering” an attempt on his life, but said he believed neither former President Jimmy Carter nor Bill Clinton ever tried to kill him.

The New York Stock Exchange today said it will close on Tuesday as part of a national day of mourning to mark the funeral of US President Gerald Ford.

Wall Street surged higher today, hurtling the Dow Jones industrials past 12,500 for the first time as year-end bargain hunters picked up stocks across a variety of sectors.

“WE HAVE to be concerned about trigger-happy Americans armed here,” MEP Patricia McKenna said on the television news on Monday evening.

Fidel Castro accused President George Bush today of plotting with Miami exiles to assassinate him as part of the White House’s hardening policies against the communist-run island.

If admirers of former US President Ronald Reagan didn’t like a television movie about him after reading leaked snippets of a script, their opinion isn’t likely to change after seeing the final product.

George W Bush toured former Nazi death camps today and urged the world never to forget the Holocaust victims.

US President George Bush is today expected to name CSX Corp chairman John Snow as his new Treasury Secretary, White House officials said.

IF US President George W. Bush ordered military action against Iraq, he would explain clearly to Americans his decision to try to remove Saddam Hussein from power, a White House aide said yesterday.

BRITAIN is to award US Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan an honorary knighthood, the UK Treasury has said.

Newly released US government documents have proven that the US administration approved Indonesia’s bloody and murderous invasion of East Timor in 1975.

President Bill Clinton signed a secret directive in 1998 authorizing US efforts to capture or disrupt Osama bin Laden and his terrorism network, and several unsuccessful attempts were made, a person familiar with the effort revealed yesterday.