When they are not poking through your email Big Brother and Dear Leader will be tracking your every movement.

Wonder how well this play woiuld go over in Yuba-Sutter community theater?

The fire this time. Climate change a reality now, world weather organization reports.

"New analyses of proxy data for the northern hemisphere indicate that the increase in temperature in the 20th century is likely to have been the largest in any century during the past 1,000 years."

Why not July 4, and ice the crybaby cake?

The State Department said yesterday that the 35 countries had failed to reach a 1 July deadline to provide the US with assurances that no American soldiers or military personnel would be charged and tried by the new court, for war crime offences allegedly carried out on their territory.

Ari Fleischer, President Bush's spokesman, said that the US decision was designed to protect American troops. He said: "These are the people who are able to deliver assistance to the various states around the world, and if delivering aid endangers America's servicemen and servicewomen, the President's first priority is with the servicemen and servicewomen."

In fact, what they are really worried about is not that servicemen and women might be placed in danger, but that presidents, generals and appointed government ministers might one day find their own conniving tuchises in the dock.