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Beck asked Limbaugh: "Rush, will you — help me out on this, because you always get thrown under the bus, that — well, you know, where were you when George Bush was spending, et cetera, et cetera. Address — because I — I have to tell you, the Republican Party doesn't get it. You just said, echoed again what I was saying about the progressive Republicans. George Bush, this compassionate conservative movement has got to die a violent death." Limbaugh agreed with Beck's assessment that Bush had gone off the GOP reservation.

David Cameron has apologised for mistakes his party made on the economy, among them not warning about the extent of the UK's debt crisis. In a speech, the Tory leader said he was "sorry" he had got some things wrong and opposition members as well as ministers should admit failings. "It's that that needs to take place in order to build trust with the public so that we can get this economy out of recession and into recovery," he said.

The collapse came so fast it seemed unreal, impossible. One woman here compared it to being hit by a train. Another said she felt as if she were watching it through a window. Another said, “It feels like you’ve been put in a prison, and you don’t know what you did wrong.”

The City was in shock last night after the apparent suicide of a millionaire financier haunted by the pressures of dealing with the credit crunch. Kirk Stephenson, who was married with an eight-year-old son, died in the path of a 100mph express train at Taplow railway station, Berkshire.

At the TM supermarket in Borrowdale, in Harare's western suburbs, many shelves were bare yesterday. But a kilo of mince cost Z$490 billion, a kilo of sausage Z$170 billion, and a tin of baked beans Z$30 billion. Despite Zimbabwe's desperate shortage of food, heavy import duties have been slapped onto edible products, and a litre of imported orange juice cost an eye-watering Z$303 billion.

The Royal Bank of Scotland has advised clients to brace for a full-fledged crash in global stock and credit markets over the next three months as inflation paralyses the major central banks.

Italians are outraged after the government publishes every citizen's declared taxable income on the internet. The tax authority's website was inundated by people curious to know how much their neighbours, celebrities or sports stars were making. The Italian treasury suspended the website after a formal complaint from the country's privacy watchdog. The release of the information was one of the last acts of the outgoing centre-left government and has shocked many tax-shy Italians, says the BBC's Mark Duff in Milan.

These Albanian Muslims, terrorists to be, were smuggled into the United States at Brownsville, Texas as children.

Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair plans to allow only people who speak English and have skills that are in demand to settle in Britain, after polls showed the public considers immigration rules to be too weak. ``The controls you need are to weed out the abuses,'' Blair said in a Sky News television interview today in London after the plan was presented to Parliament. ``But in weeding out those abuses, you shouldn't do damage to the economy.'' The five-year asylum and immigration plan, outlined by Home Secretary Charles Clarke in the House of Commons, sets out...

SPANISH troops scheduled to relieve those deployed in Iraq were held up at Zaragoza Airport on Monday due to a political challenge between the new government and the acting PP government. PM José María Aznar ordered the cancellation of the flight to Kuwait as incoming PM José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero would not issue a letter allowing the troops to be relieved.

Ollie North reported this morning a blinding sandstorm has hit the US forces in the Kuwaiti desert. He reported that sand, dirt and grit enters every nook and crevice of mechanical equipment exposed in the desert.