In a clear signal to the Chancellor that he doubts whether a second so-called "fiscal stimulus" can be afforded, Mervyn King told the Commons Treasury Select Committee: "I am sure the Government will want to be cautious in this respect. There is no doubt that we are facing very large fiscal deficits over the next two to three years."

The Governor said that the Government had little choice but to allow the steep surge in public borrowing triggered by the recession. Borrowing is set to breach the Chancellor's £118 billion forecast for the 2009-10 financial year, forcing big revisions to his plans in next month's Budget. "We are going to have to accept for the next two to three years very large fiscal deficits," Mr King said. But he suggested that even higher borrowing as a result of an extra Budget stimulus of tax cuts or more spending would not be affordable.

"The fiscal position in the UK is not one that would say, 'Well, why don't we just engage in another significant round of fiscal expansion?'." He added that he believed that the brunt of further action to buoy the economy should come from monetary policy, in the form of the Bank's quantitative easing strategy of 'printing money' as well as record low interest rates, now at just 0.5 per cent.

The service is being introduced jointly by Oxfordshire County Council and Oxfordshire Primary Care Trust after a jump of almost 10 per cent in the number of girls aged 18 and under getting pregnant. The number went up from 320 in 2006 to 350 in 2007, according to the latest figures.

Council chiefs refused to reveal which schools were involved as it might attract 'unhelpful attention'. But a confidential inquiry held in July pinpointed Oxford and Banbury as teen pregnancy 'hotspots'. The morning-after pill, often sold by the brand name Levonelle, contains a high dose of the hormone progestogen.

Norman Wells, director of the Family Education Trust, commented: 'Oxfordshire PCT is sadly mistaken if it thinks A TEXT SERVICE TO HELP TEENAGE GIRLS GET THE MORNING-AFTER PILL THROUGH THE SCHOOL NURSE seven days a week and 52 weeks a year will reduce the teenage pregnancy rate. School staff should be encouraging young people to respect and confide in their parents, not undermining them.'

The deaths were revealed at a press conference following a week of ward closures as the hospital battles to contain the problem. A special isolation ward has been opened and patients were last week diverted to other sites up to 30 miles away for operations while cleaning work is carried out.

C. diff is the major cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhoea and colitis, an infection of the intestines. The bacterium, which lives in the gut, MULTIPLIES WHEN DOSES OF ANTIBIOTICS DISTURB THE NATURAL BALANCE OF GERMS IN THE BODY - causing severe complications for the elderly and those already suffering a serious illness.

A spokesman for East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs the hospital, said: "The trust continues to keep the situation under close review and maintains the most stringent measures to contain the spread of this infection. The Kent-based Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust came under fire in October 2007 after a report revealed 90 of its hospital patients had died from C. diff.

The trust will release research suggesting UK population must be cut to 30m if the country wants to feed itself sustainably. Porritt said: "Population growth, plus economic growth, is putting the world under terrible pressure. Each person in Britain has far more impact on the environment than those in developing countries so cutting our population is one way to reduce that impact."

Population growth is one of the most politically sensitive environmental problems. The issues it raises, including religion, culture and immigration policy, have proved too toxic for most green groups. However, Porritt is winning scientific backing. Professor Chris Rapley, director of the Science Museum, will use the OPT conference, to be held at the Royal Statistical Society, to warn that POPULATION GROWTH COULD HELP DERAIL ATTEMPTS TO CUT GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS.

Many experts believe that, since Europeans and Americans have such a lopsided impact on the environment, the world would benefit more from reducing their populations than by making cuts in developing countries. This is part of the thinking behind the OPT's call for Britain to cut population to 30m — roughly what it was in late Victorian times. Britain's population is expected to grow from 61m now to 71m by 2031. Some politicians support a reduction.

All EU countries will have to provide is a form which says the Briton was informed of his trial, and offered legal representation, even though the assurances might be worthless. It reported that Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, agreed to the changes as part of the Government's commitment to further EU integration.

The article quoted Open Europe's Pieter Cleppe warning that "This could open the door to serious miscarriages of justice and ministers should not be supporting it. One British man only found out that he had been tried and convicted of grievous bodily harm in Germany when he was later subjected to a Criminal Records Bureau check by a new employer."

The News of the World reported that the longest serving Commissioners, Commission Vice-Presidents and Communications Commissioner Margot Wallstrom and Industry Commissioner Gunter Verheugen, WILL RECEIVE THE LARGEST AMOUNTS WITH PENSION FUNDS WORTH ALMOST £1.8 MILLION. The article quoted Open Europe Director Lorraine Mullally arguing that, "While taxpayers struggle in the recession and worry about losing jobs, their money is going to pamper GROSSLY OVERPAID EUROCRATS with eye-watering salaries. It's outrageous this team of UNELECTED BRUSSELS CIVIL SERVANTS walk away with these vast sums. This is totally unjustified."

The Telegraph reported that even UK Commissioner Catherine Ashton who replaced Lord Mandelson, and who has been in the job for less than a year will qualify for three-years of transitional allowances, worth over £89,000 a year, and that the pension costs alone of the five-year Barroso Commission amount to more than £33 million.

The article quotes Open Europe' Sarah Gaskell saying that, "Even Sir Fred Goodwin would be impressed at the size of the pensions that Commissioners are walking away with...Taxpayers around Europe, whose pensions have been swallowed up in the recession, will rightly question why they are footing such an enormous bill for a handful of remote officials who they never voted for in the first place."

Analysts said the proposal was an indication of Beijing's fears that actions being taken to save the domestic US economy would have a negative impact on China. "This is a clear sign that China, as the largest holder of US dollar financial assets, is concerned about the potential inflationary risk of the US Federal Reserve printing money," said Qu Hongbin, chief China economist for HSBC.

Although Mr Zhou did not mention the US dollar, the essay gave a pointed critique of the current dollar-dominated monetary system. "The outbreak of the [current] crisis and its spillover to the entire world reflected the inherent vulnerabilities and systemic risks in the existing international monetary system," Mr Zhou wrote. China has little choice but to hold the bulk of its $2,000bn of foreign exchange reserves in US dollars, and this is unlikely to change in the near future.

China's proposal would expand the basket of currencies forming the basis of SDR (special drawing rights) valuation to all major economies and set up a settlement system between SDRs and other currencies so they could be used in international trade and financial transactions. Countries would entrust a portion of their SDR reserves to the IMF to manage collectively on their behalf and SDRs would gradually replace existing reserve currencies. Mr Zhou said the proposal would require "extraordinary political vision and courage" and acknowledged a debt to John Maynard Keynes, who made a similar suggestion in the 1940s.

It also lowers the chances for mild cognitive impairment, and the risk of progression from mild cognitive impairment to Alzheimer's disease. Survivors of heart attack had lower inflammatory markers when they adhered to the Mediterranean way of eating. Scientists have even isolated one of the most beneficial components of the diet.

What is thought of as the traditional Mediterranean diet has been interpreted into a pyramid with daily physical activity at its base. Regular physical activity is seen as bedrock for promoting healthy weight, fitness and well-being. This is not grueling exercise, but enjoyable activity like walking, soccer, tennis, golf, and dancing. It includes activities with immediate paybacks, like house cleaning and gardening.

Olive oil is the principle fat used in Mediterranean cuisine. Total fat consumption ranges from less than 25 percent to over 35 percent of calories, with saturated fat making up no more than 7 to 8 percent of all fat calories. Olive oil is predominantly monounsaturated fat. Mediterraneans do not generally use highly process polyunsaturated vegetable or seed oils. Sweets such as pastries, ice cream and cookies are consumed occasionally. They are not a part of the daily diet. Alcohol, particularly red wine, is consumed in moderation with meals.

"BLUNTLY THE SITUATION IS DIRE," he told a meeting on the crisis at the International Labour Organisation, a United Nations agency representing unions, employers and governments that studies labour issues. Strauss-Kahn was talking less than two weeks before a summit of the G20 leading nations on April 2 to tackle the crisis. As the crisis spills over into developing countries, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL BE PUSHED BACK INTO POVERTY AND HARDSHIP, Strauss-Kahn said.

"All this will affect dramatically unemployment and beyond unemployment for many countries it will be at THE ROOTS OF SOCIAL UNREST, SOME THREAT TO DEMOCRACY, AND MAY BE FOR SOME CASES IT CAN ALSO END IN WAR," he said.

The IMF's experience of 122 banking crises around the world had taught it that economic recovery was impossible until banks were cleaned up, whether this was done quickly or slowly. "You can put in as much stimulus as you want. It will just melt in the sun as snow if at the same time you are not able to have a generally smaller financial sector than before but a healthy financial sector at work," he said. Despite the need for many countries to run huge deficits, emerging countries must not ignore the importance of rebuilding confidence in order to attract private capital in a globalised world, he said.

Dewey Cornell, a professor of education at the University of Virginia said, "that persons who play violent video games will be more prone to have aggressive thoughts, feelings and actions."

Brad Bushman, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan, said the study does not allow conclusions about which came first — Internet addiction or aggression. "It could be that using the Internet causes people to behave more aggressively or it could be that aggressive people seek out the Internet," he said. "Or some other third factor could cause both — people with poor social skills don't have any friends, so they spend a lot of time on the Internet and can't resolve conflicts in non-aggressive ways."

If so, it will raise fears the UK is facing a damaging bout of deflation. The Consumer Prices Index (CPI), which is used in economic policy, is expected to show prices have risen by 2.6%. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is due to announce both measures at 0930 GMT on Tuesday. If the RPI is negative it would be the first time the index has declined since March 1960. This is largely down to the fall in mortgage repayments after a succession of interest rate cuts.

The latest RPI data showed prices had increased by just 0.1% in January compared with the previous year, the ONS said last month. The Bank of England and UK government use the index of consumer prices (CPI) to target the level of inflation they desire. But the government uses the broader measure of RPI to set the level of state pensions, welfare benefits and index-linked government bonds.

There is the concern of the cost of mortgage payments staying the same while other prices fall, effectively leading to an increased debt burden. Economists surveyed by the UK Treasury expect retail prices to be falling by an annual rate of 1.9% by the end of the year.

It also says the al-Qaeda leadership is likely to fragment, but the threat from those it inspires will remain. Ministers earlier said 60,000 workers are being trained to help respond to a terror attack as part of the strategy. Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said: "Terrorists will try to stay one step ahead of us. But we've made sure that we've invested the resources, built the people - both in the police and in the agencies - and built the widest partnership necessary to give us the best chance of being able to deal with that threat."

The new counter-terrorism document talks about the need to "challenge those who reject the rights to which we are committed, scorn the institutions and values of our parliamentary democracy, dismiss the rule of law and promote intolerance". There will be more focus on preventing the radicalisation of Muslims. Last month, sources told the BBC's Panorama programme that conservative Muslims who teach that Islam is incompatible with Western democracy will be challenged as part of a new approach.

BY 2011, BRITAIN WILL BE SPENDING £3.5BN A YEAR ON COUNTER-TERRORISM, the Home Office has said. The number of police working on counter-terrorism has risen to 3,000 from 1,700 in 2003.

From a looming battle with China over tariffs on carbon-intensive goods to a spat over Mexican trucks using American roads, barriers are going up around the world. As the recession's grip tightens, these pressures are likely to intensify, several experts said. The surge in protectionism is casting a shadow over an economic summit meeting of world leaders scheduled for London on April 2.

"No sooner was the G-20 statement issued than it was breached," said Daniel M. Price, an official in the Bush administration who helped negotiate the agreement. "Instead of just talking about trade liberalization, countries need to take immediate steps to show they mean it."

World Bank, in a report last week, said that since the Washington meeting, 17 members of the Group of 20 had adopted 47 measures aimed at restricting trade. Russia has raised tariffs on used cars. China has tightened import standards on food, banning Irish pork, among other things. India has banned Chinese toys. Argentina has tightened licensing requirements on auto parts, textiles and leather goods.

And a dozen countries, from the United States to Australia, are subsidizing embattled automakers or car dealers. The most vivid example of that policy is the "Buy America" provision in the stimulus package, intended to ensure that only American manufacturers benefited from public-spending projects.

With violence rising ahead of elections in August, Obama has already committed an extra 17,000 troops to Afghanistan, but on Sunday he said military force alone would not end the war. "What we can't do is think that just a military approach in Afghanistan is going to be able to solve our problems," he said in an interview with CBS TV's "60 minutes."

"So what we're looking for is a comprehensive strategy. AND THERE'S GOT TO BE AN EXIT STRATEGY… There's got to be a sense that this is not perpetual drift." Some analysts say Washington is going to have to engage in dialogue with Taliban elements, a point Obama and Vice President Joe Biden have conceded recently. However, in Afghanistan itself other experts have suggested that idea is a non-starter.

And Taliban-led insurgents such as the Haqqani network, which has admitted carrying out some of the most deadly attacks on civilians and foreign troops in Afghanistan, dismiss the dialogue proposals as a trick to weaken and divide militants. In an interview with Reuters on Monday Sirajuddin Haqqani said all Taliban were the same and no parts of the movement would be willing to engage with Washington or Kabul.

Ash from Alaska's volcano's is like a rock fragment with jagged edges and has been used as an industrial abrasive. It can injure skin, eyes and breathing passages. The young, the elderly and people with respiratory problems are especially susceptible to ash-related health problems. Ash can also cause damage to engines in planes, cars and other vehicles. Alaska Airlines on Monday cancelled 19 flights in and out of the Anchorage international airport because of the ash.

The 10,200-foot Redoubt Volcano, roughly 100 miles southwest of Anchorage, last erupted during a four-month period from 1989-90. In its last eruption, Redoubt sent ash 150 miles away into the path of a KLM jet and its four engines flamed out. The jet dropped more than 2 miles before the crew was able to restart all engines and land safely. The plane required $80 million in repairs.

The volcano became restless earlier this year. A warning was issued in late January that an eruption could occur at any time. Increased earthquake activity over the past 48 hours prompted scientists to raise the alert level for Mount Redoubt on Sunday. On Sunday morning, 40 to 50 earthquakes were being recorded every hour.