DEMOCRATIC challenger John Kerry turned President Bush’s own words into a weapon yesterday and said it was the Republican incumbent who had jumped to conclusions in Iraq, disqualifying him from being commander-in-chief.

Britney Spears’ fans don’t think the pop star’s chewed gum is Toxic – they’re buying wads of it on eBay.

The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, an 1888 recitation of the Lord’s Prayer and the original cast recording of Oklahoma! Are to be enshrined the US’s registry of historic sound.