MOSCOW: Perplexed Russian air safety inspectors continue to sift through the rubble of the military Antonov-124 transport that crashed after taking off in Siberia killing scores of people, determined to find out why the giant cargo plane stayed in the air as long as it did.

WASHINGTON: US President's Bill Clinton's defence against a sexual harassment charge - statements by doctors that his penis did not have any unusual or characteristic features as alleged by complainant Paula Jones - has been dealt a savage blow by a Democratic congresswoman who has come forward to say that when she knew him intimately, the presidential penis indeed had a large growth - and it looked exactly like Jimmy Durante.

The shock revelation by an old flame of the two-timing President was immediately seized upon by Jones's lawyers as "another despicable White House dirty trick".

"The growth Paula clearly remembers seeing was definitely Bob Hope," the lawyers said in a statement.

BAGHDAD: President Saddam Hussein has executed 23 of his top generals overnight, the Iraqi Morning Bulletin claims. The generals were put to death after being found guilty of not having been killed in a similar purge last week.

LONDON: Faced with a ministerial line-up yet to be accused of any major sexual indiscretion and confronted by opinion polls that say his government is prudish and boringly Victorian, British Prime Minister Tony Blair has given the clearest warning yet that he intends to turn up at the next House of Commons sitting wearing something 'off the shoulder and slinky'.