The woman’s eyes are open in the video. She slowly rolls her head along the pillow, keeping up a constant low moan, as a man’s arm dangles a metallic balloon overhead. ”Look over here, Terri,” a male voice says. ”Can you follow that at all?”

President George Bush on Monday vowed the United States would ”never run” from its ”vital” mission in Iraq, in the wake of a missile attack on a US army helicopter that killed 16 soldiers and wounded 21. The attack near the Sunni nationalist stronghold of Falluja was the worst day for the US military since March, bringing home the strength of anti-American forces in Iraq.

He has previously described it as ”not an affair” and ”just poom-bah-boom”. But on Monday night Boris Becker gave the most graphic account yet of how he became a father for the third time following his celebrated brief encounter with a waitress in the broom cupboard of a London restaurant.

Investors who rely for advice on Forbes, the highly regarded American business magazine, will be tipped off this month about the industry that is now outpacing many others in North America: marijuana growing.

For 54 years the fate of a young Bedouin girl who disappeared in the Negev desert was relegated to rumour and a single entry in the diary of David Ben-Gurion, the prime minister of the fledgling Israeli state. ”It was decided and carried out: they washed her, cut her hair, raped her and killed her,” he wrote.

The ruling African National Congress (ANC) said on Monday that it noted the weekend joint rally of its governing partner the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) and the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) — and said it would discuss it on a bilateral basis.