It comes amid splits among Anglicans worldwide over homosexuality and the ordination of women. But Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams said he did not think it was a "commentary on Anglican problems". Causes of discord in the worldwide Anglican communion have included the election of an openly gay bishop and the blessing of same-sex unions.

In the Church of England, the ordination of women as priests, and the prospect of their appointment as bishops, has led many Anglicans to consider joining the Roman Catholics. Two senior opponents of women bishops said they would announce their reaction to the Vatican move in February.

The measure, known as an Apostolic Constitution, was shown to leaders of the Church of England just two weeks ago. Under its terms announced by the Vatican, groupings of Anglicans would be able to join "personal ordinariates". This would allow them to enter full communion with the Catholic church, but also preserve elements of the Anglican traditions including the possible use of Anglican prayer books.

He told the Major Economies Forum in London, which brings together 17 of the world's biggest greenhouse gas-emitting countries, there was "no plan B". World delegations meet in Copenhagen in December for talks on a new treaty.

The United Nations (UN) summit will aim to establish a deal to replace the 1997 Kyoto treaty as its targets for reducing emissions only apply to a small number of countries and expire in 2012. Mr Brown warned that negotiators were not reaching agreement quickly enough and said it was a "profound moment" for the world involving "momentous choice. In Britain we face the prospect of more frequent droughts and a rising wave of floods," he told delegates. "The extraordinary summer heatwave of 2003 in Europe resulted in over 35,000 extra deaths."

In recent days there have been a number of warnings that progress is stalling. Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, told Newsweek magazine "the prospects that states will actually agree to anything in Copenhagen are starting to look worse and worse". The Major Economies Forum is not part of the formal UN process and so firm commitments are unlikely to come from the meeting. It is seen instead as a gathering where countries can explore options and positions in a less pressured environment.

This is nearly treble the official £805billion figure used by the Treasury and equal to a staggering 157 per cent of national output. Alistair Darling has warned national debt will rise to £1.4trillion over the next few years. But the new report insists this is far too low and accused the Government of hiding its real scale by omitting massive bills from its figures.

Author, Tory MP Brooks Newmark, claims the 'hidden liabilities' include Private Finance Initiative projects, the banking bailouts and public sector pensions. His report came as the CBI warned another £120billion needed to be cut from public spending amid fears of a 'VW recession' that will see the economy struggle for years.

Mr Newmark, MP for Braintree in Essex, warns in his book The Hidden Bombshell that these are only 'cautious assumptions' and overall debt could be even higher. 'The truth is the national debt is far higher than the Prime Minister is willing to acknowledge. To continue to ignore this is both economically irresponsible and economic with the truth.' He adds: 'The Chancellor has called for greater transparency from the banks and corporations. It is time that he applied the same principles to the national finances and end the "Do as I say, not do as I do" culture of this government.'

The storm is roaring roaring towards the popular tourist town of Cabo San Lucas on the Baja California Peninsula today. Its howling winds have been measured at 145mph - bringing it down to a dangerous Category Four storm. Over the weekend winds reached up to 180mph - a potentially catastrophic Category Five.
Forecasters said they expected Rick to make landfall by midweek as a Category 1 or Category 2 hurricane, with winds ranging from 74 mph (120 kph) to 110 mph (177 kph).

Forecasters called on all those in Mexico's southern Baja California peninsula and along the mainland coast to closely monitor the storm, adding Rick would remain an extremely dangerous hurricane for the next day or two before losing some punch over cooler waters.

The French Foreign Office reports that French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has said this week that, during the European Council meeting on 29-30 October, "the general lines of the European External Action Service will be sketched, in other words the future EU 'Foreign Affairs Minister'. This [diplomatic] service will have to put its members at the core of the Commission, the Council's Secretary General, but also of the 27 member states."

"The credibility and effectiveness of European diplomacy will depend on its ability to analyse and act. The biggest mistake would be to create new European bureaucracy." The paper also reports that the UK is also looking TO INTEGRATE MEMBER STATES' MILITARY CONTINGENT IN BRUSSELS INTO THE EXTERNAL ACTION SERVICE.

The French Foreign Office quotes Bernard Kouchner saying the Lisbon Treaty, "will lead to an influential Europe that will be able to make its voice heard on the international scene because it will be more effective and visible with a stable President of the Council and... a High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and a security policy benefiting from reinforced means of actions, A TRUE EUROPEAN DEFENCE POLICY, and the necessary conditions for powerful diplomacy. Can the diplomat do without the soldier...? I don't think so."

An ambulance crew arrived and called for help, only to be told by their operator that under strict meal break regulations the closest additional crew still had a few minutes left on their lunch break. The paramedics were informed it would take 20 minutes for another crew to arrive. In the end one of them called their colleagues directly and they abandoned their lunch and raced to help. They arrived only five minutes after the original crew and took Bethany to hospital.

An ambulance worker, who asked not be named, said: 'There isn't one staff member who would not go, but we have to be given two 30-minute meal breaks and can't be interrupted. It's a joke.' Bethany's father Stephen 48, of Poole, Dorset, said: 'THE WORLD REALLY HAS GONE MAD.'

A spokesman for the South Western Ambulance Service Trust said it took its health and safety duties seriously. He added: 'In line with national guidelines which must be adhered to by all ambulance trusts, it is important all staff have dedicated 30-minute rest breaks which cannot be interrupted.'

- The G-20 countries, now largely in control of the world's economic caretaking, are turning the US into just one of many countries setting the rules for our future.

- Behind closed doors, Arab Gulf States are seriously considering replacing the dollar for pricing oil.

- The UN Commission of Experts on International Financial Reports is now recommending that the world ditch the dollar as its reserve currency and replace it with a basket of currencies.

- China's central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan is calling for a new global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

- A host of leading and Nobel prize-winning economists — such as Robert Mundell, Joseph Stiglitz, George Soros and fund manager Jimmy Rogers — are making similar arguments and doing so with growing influence.

Make no mistake about it — the world's monetary system is on the verge of dramatically changing.

Washington's Tower of Debts - If the government could somehow pay off that debt at the rate of $100 million PER DAY, it would take 3,446 years before the total government debts and obligations are paid off. Even if Washington were to pay off $1 billion per day, it would still take nearly 345 years to pay off those debts!

Patently unsustainable debts? Yes! Patently unpayable? You bet it is! Of course, Washington will never default outright on its obligations. But it doesn't have to. By devaluing the dollar, Washington can effectively pay off its debts with a cheaper currency.

"This deficit is driven by us," New Hampshire Republican Senator Judd Gregg candidly said Sunday on CNN's State of the Union when asked about the federal government's projected $1.42 trillion operating deficit for the 2009 fiscal year.

"You talk about systemic risk. The systemic risk today is the Congress of the United States," the Ranking Republican on the Senate Budget Committee told CNN Chief National Correspondent John King, "that we're creating these massive debts which we're passing on to our children. We're going to undermine fundamentally the quality of life for our children by doing this."

The figures, Gregg told King, "MEAN WE'RE BASICALLY ON THE PATH TO A BANANA-REPUBLIC-TYPE OF FINANCIAL SITUATION IN THIS COUNTRY. And you just can't do that. You can't keep running these [federal] programs out [into the future] and not paying for them. And you can't keep throwing debt on top of debt. Standards of living will drop if we keep this up."

More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities. By refusing the latter order, the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming "giant concentration camps," a scenario the 44-year-old Rhodes says he can envision happening in the coming years.

It's a Cold War-era nightmare vision with a major twist: The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet. "The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them. We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you." Oath Keepers is not preaching violence or government overthrow, Rhodes said. On the contrary, IT IS ASKING POLICE AND THE MILITARY TO LAY DOWN THEIR ARMS IN RESPONSE TO UNLAWFUL ORDERS.

The US Department of Homeland Security said the nation's economic downturn and Obama's race are "unique drivers for right-wing radicalization and recruitment." The homeland security report added that "disgruntled military veterans" might be vulnerable to recruitment by right-wing extremist groups. That warning was enough to make Rhodes feel paranoid. "THEY'RE ACCUSING ANYBODY WHO OPPOSES OBAMA OF BEING A RACIST OR A POTENTIAL TERRORIST," he said. "What they're saying is, 'We're coming after you.'" The motto of Oath Keepers: "Not on our watch!"

1. Iran has just been caught secretly building a 2nd uranium enrichment facility on a military base in the religious capital of Iran, a city known as Qom;

2. A growing number of Western military analysts say the design of this new facility - and its secrecy, and location - clearly indicates it was being built by Iran for the purpose of creating nuclear weapons;

3. Iran has thus been caught in its third lie since 2002 with regards to building secret nuclear development facilities in Natanz, Arak, and now Qom;

4. Ahmadinejad refused four times during his NBC News interview last week to rule out the building of nuclear weapons;

5. AQ Khan - the father of Pakistan's nuclear weapons development program - has just admitted selling advanced nuclear weapons blueprints years ago to Iran for millions of dollars;

6. The latest IAEA report indicates Iran has enough low-enriched uranium (LEU) to produce enough high-enriched uranium (HEU) by 2010 to produce two nuclear weapons;

7. Iran has just spent the weekend testing "its most advanced missiles" capable of reaching Israel;

8. Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad began his speech to the UN by praying for Allah to hasten the coming of the Islamic Messiah, which according to his theology requires the destruction of Judeo-Christian civilization as we know it.

9. Ahmadinejad spoke more openly about his End of the World theology during his UN speech than ever before;

10. Ahmadinejad was asked for the first time by an American reporter to describe his relationship with the "Twelfth Imam" and admitted on camera that he is communicating with this mystical Shia messiah;

Humanly speaking, war is coming. The West does not seem determined enough to stop Iran from getting the bomb. Israel might soon feel compelled to launch a preemptive strike against Iran. It won't be easy, and the entire region could go up in flames.

The German EU parliamentarian is calling for impeachment proceedings against the President of the Czech Republic. According to reports, German diplomats have already been taking steps in Prague to find out if this is possible. Also being discussed is the disempowerment of the president through a change in the country's constitution.

These interventions are directed against one of Germany's neighbors, whose constitutional bodies have on various occasions been the object of Berlin's foreign policy. The reason for Prague's skepticism toward the "Lisbon Treaty" is that IT CANNOT FORGET THE GERMAN EXPANSIONISM THAT LED TO A WORLD WAR 70 YEARS AGO. Even without consideration of the historical contexts, GERMAN POLICY IS TEARING DOWN DEMOCRATIC MINIMUM STANDARDS, which, already at various stages of the ratification process of the so-called Lisbon Treaty, have been ridiculed.

The draft treaty favors THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE EU INTO A GLOBALLY OPERATING MILITARY POWER AND REINFORCES GERMAN HEGEMONY. The massive interference attempts are being accompanied by a nationalist anti-Czech media campaign. Even the haste, with which Berlin wants to see the draft treaty ratified, IS AIMED AT AVOIDING DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES.

The overwhelming majority of the people of Great Britain reject this treaty, which is why the current labor government ratified the treaty without submitting it to a referendum. Now the head of the Conservative Party has announced his intentions to rescind the ratification and hold a referendum, should his party win the next parliamentary elections, if the treaty has not taken effect by that time.

A conservative majority is considered assured in the elections scheduled for next spring. If Berlin wants to keep the British population from rejecting the draft treaty in this referendum, the document must - at all costs - finish the ratification process before the British elections. THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE MUCH TIME.

Executives are queuing up to collect multi-million pound bonuses and lenders have launched a hard sell on 95 per cent mortgages, triggering a price war on the high street. Politicians accused banks of 'gorging' themselves on the back of the taxpayer guarantees that were used to bail them out. Their anger was stoked by the news that Goldman Sachs' 5,500 bankers in the UK are in line to pocket £440,000 each after the business revealed a three-fold surge in profits.

John McFall, Labour chairman of the Treasury Select Committee, said: 'There's a lot government money sloshing around the system, which firms like Goldman are gorging on. The industry has said it is going to change, but in fact, it's back to business as usual.'

Vince Cable, Lib Dem Treasury spokesman, said: 'People will be rightly furious to see Goldman Sachs paying out bumper bonuses just 12 months after it was bailed out by the US government. It is farcical that so soon after the reckless greed of bankers brought the world economy to its knees, we are seeing a return to business as usual.' The outcry came after Goldmans revealed that it is on course to shower nearly £14billion on its workers.

After signing $3.5 billion in deals and approving a framework for the export of a huge quantity of Russian natural gas to China during an October 12-14 summit, the two countries have shown that what links them closest is the almighty deal. "The most important thing is that Russia and China have the need and capacity to enhance cooperation and the two economies are complementary to each other," Putin told China's state-run Xinhua news service. For each side, there are clear benefits: Russia's energy companies secure a stake in China, which is set to become the world's biggest energy consumer within five years, according to the International Energy Agency in Paris.

And for China, Russia provides a safer, more direct source for gas and oil than either the Persian Gulf or the Horn of Africa. Energy-rich Russia has suffered from tanking oil and natural gas prices, while China has managed thus far to weather the global economic downturn thanks to $586 billion in government stimulus spending. China has taken advantage of more than $2 trillion in foreign-exchange reserves to shop for energy and mineral reserves abroad.

"The timing is good," says David Zweig, director of the Center on China's Transnational Relations at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. "China has been very active to get as many commitments on energy around the world before the dollar devalues too much."

Presidential Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev also singled out the US and NATO, saying Moscow's Cold War foes still pose potential threats to Russia despite what he called a global trend toward local conflicts. Officials are examining "a variety of possibilities for using nuclear force, depending on the situation and the intentions of the possible opponent," Patrushev was quoted as saying. "In situations critical to national security, options including a preventative nuclear strike on the aggressor are not excluded."

The proposed doctrine would allow for the use of nuclear weapons "to repel an aggression with the use of conventional weapons not only in a large-scale but also in a regional and even local war," Patrushev was quoted as saying. He said a government analysis of the threat of conflict in the world showed "a shift from large-scale conflicts to local wars and armed conflicts."

The temperature has shattered a 36-year record. Further into the heartlands of America, the city of Billings registered -12C on Sunday, breaking the 1959 barrier of -5C. Closer to home, Austria is today seeing its earliest snowfall in history with 30 to 40 centimetres already predicted in the mountains. Such dramatic falls in temperatures provide superficial evidence for those who doubt that the world is threatened by climate change.

But most pertinent of all, of course, are the growing volume of statistics. According to the National Climatic Data Centre, Earth's hottest recorded year was 1998.If you put the same question to NASA, scientists will say it was 1934, followed by 1998. The next three runner-ups are 1921, 2006 and 1931. Which all blows a rather large hole in the argument that the earth is hurtling towards an inescapable heat death prompted by man's abuse of the environment.

Indeed, some experts believe we should forget global warming and turn our attention to an entirely differently phenomenon - global cooling.