THE man who co-wrote the song Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini had the unsettling experience this week of reading his own obituary — thanks to an impostor who went through life claiming to be the author of the 1960s smash hit.

A 10-year-old girl was barred from singing a ballad bashing US President George Bush at her elementary school talent show in Coral Springs, Florida, because her principal deemed the song inappropriate and too political.

Federal authorities made the first arrest yesterday in the worldwide investigation into this week’s terrorist attacks, a government official said.

Police in Hamburg, Germany, say they have detained a male airport worker and a woman in connection with the terror attacks in the US.

A photograph of one of the suspected hijackers in the US terrorist attacks has been unearthed in Florida.