Last night it emerged that City workers were being advised to "dress down" next week to avoid drawing attention to themselves. More than 1,000 officials and diplomats are expected in the capital, including the leaders of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, for the G20 London Summit. Senior Whitehall sources warned yesterday to expect "WIDESPREAD DISRUPTION" WITH PARKS AND ROADS LIKELY TO BE CLOSED FOR MOST OF THE WEEK. Guidance from the Federation of Small Businesses, seen by The Daily Telegraph, advises employees in the City "to dress down and not draw attention to themselves".

Up to 40 armed convoys are expected to ferry diplomats and world leaders, including United States President Barack Obama, when they arrive in the UK from Tuesday. The next day campaigners will focus on institutions in the Square Mile in a series of annual April Fools' Day anti-globalisation and climate change demonstrations. Four columns of protesters are said to be planning to march on the Bank of England on Wednesday. TRAIN AND TUBE SERVICES ARE LIKELY TO BE DISRUPTED. Attention will then shift to the day long G20 summit on Thursday at the Excel conference centre in Docklands.

Police are fearing that protesters will resort to ingenious ways to cause maximum upheaval, such as blocking roads with piles of sand, and bringing children to play in them. More than 2,500 officers are expected to flood the capital in an operation costing up to £10 million, although the full cost of the summit could be nearer £50 million.

The watchdog claims it is responding to Government calls for action to combat rising teenage pregnancy. It would be the first time that pro and anti abortion services will be allowed to advertise. The move has been criticised by the church and pro-life groups.

Dr Peter Saunders, of the Christian Medical Fellowship, said: "THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE GOVERNMENT STRATEGY ON TEENAGE PREGNANCY, BASED ON CONDOMS, THE MORNING-AFTER PILL AND ABORTION, HAS FAILED. Allowing the advertising of abortion services is not dealing with the real problem."

But the Brook Advisory Centres, which give advice on contraception and abortion, said it was a step forward for sexual health. The new code would see further relaxation of rules for advertising condoms, except around programmes directed at children below the age of 10.

Clinton acknowledged the U.S. role in Mexico's vicious drug war as she arrived in Mexico for a two-day visit where she discussed U.S. plans to ramp up security on the border with President Felipe Calderon. A surge in drug gang killings to 6,300 last year and fears the violence could seep over the border has put Mexico's drug war high on President Barack Obama's agenda, after years of Mexico feeling that Washington was neglecting a joint problem.

"Our INSATIABLE DEMAND FOR ILLEGAL DRUGS FUELS THE DRUG TRADE. Our inability to prevent weapons from being illegally smuggled across the border to arm these criminals causes the death of police officers, soldiers and civilians," Clinton told reporters during her flight to Mexico City. "I feel very strongly we have a co-responsibility."

Clinton said the Obama administration strongly backed Mexico in its fight with the drug cartels and vowed the United States would try to speed up the transfer of drug-fighting equipment promised under a 2007 agreement.

After a long debate that went well into the night, the House of Representatives Budget Committee approved the blueprint along party lines 24-15 in response to the $3.55 trillion plan Obama submitted last month.

While Obama did not get everything he wanted, Democrats who control the committee included most of his priorities, including significant new investments in education and reforming the $2.5 trillion healthcare system to cover millions of uninsured Americans. Obama, speaking at an evening Democratic Party fund-raiser, challenged his opponents to present alternatives instead of just criticizing.

Schwarzenegger said he ordered the state facility known as Cal-Expo to be used for three months to serve the 125 tent city residents, some of them displaced by the economic recession. The encampment may be shut down within a month, said Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. The move comes after the Sacramento City Council last night agreed to spend $880,000 to expand homeless programs.

"Together with the local government and volunteers, we are taking a first step to ensure the people living in tent city have a safe place to stay, with fresh water, healthy conditions and access to the services they need," Schwarzenegger said in a statement. "And I am committed to working with Mayor Johnson to find a permanent solution for those living in tent city." California, home to one of every eight Americans, has been particularly hard hit by the housing market collapse after many residents turned to exotic mortgages to afford homes.

The tent city, which has long existed along the banks of the America River, gained national attention last month when some of its recently homeless residents were featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show. The state has one of the highest rates of foreclosure, according to RealtyTrac Inc., an Irvine, California-based seller of real estate data. California home prices dropped 41 percent last month from a year earlier, more than double the U.S. decline, as surging foreclosures drove down values, the state Association of Realtors said today.

Fears are growing on the financial markets THAT BRITAIN MAY NOT BE ABLE TO REPAY THE BILLIONS OF POUNDS IN DEBT it is amassing to rescue banks and revive the economy. The Government admitted yesterday that, for the first time since 1995, investors had been unwilling to buy the full complement of its so-called gilt-edged bonds at one of its official auctions.

Gilts are the financial instrument it sells to investors to fund public spending. If future gilt sales are unsuccessful, it could be devastating for Gordon Brown because he might have to scale back his spending plans. The failure of yesterday's auction followed a warning from the Governor of the Bank of England on Tuesday that the country could not afford to introduce another fiscal stimulus package of spending rises and tax cuts.

Although some experts attributed the failure to confusion in the market, rather than concern over Britain's solvency, it was highly embarrassing for Mr Brown coming just days before world leaders are due to meet in London for the G20 summit to discuss the economic crisis. George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, said: "The failed gilt auction, the first for many years, should be of real concern to everyone. It is too early to say, but THE RISK IS THAT AT SOME POINT THE GOVERNMENT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO FUND ITS HUGE DEBTS."

Mr Soros said his prediction meant he was better able to brace his Quantum investment fund against the global storm. But other investors failed to take notice of his prediction. His decision to come out of retirement in 2007 to manage the fund made him $2.9 billion. And while the financial crisis continued to deepen across the globe, THE 78-YEAR-OLD STILL MANAGED TO MAKE $1.1 BILLION LAST YEAR.

'It is, in a way, the culminating point of my life's work,' he told national newspaper The Australian. Soros is one of 25, top hedge fund managers from across Wall Street who have defied the credit crunch crisis to reap a total of $11.6 billion (£7.9 bn) last year. The managers made their profit by trading above the pain in the markets, according to Institutional Investor's Alpha Magazine.

At York Minster he said humanity should turn away from the selfishness and greed that leads it to ignore its interdependence with the natural world. And God would not guarantee a "happy ending", he warned. Dr Williams has often spoken out about environmental issues. Speaking on Wednesday he said just as God gave humans free will to do "immeasurable damage" to themselves as individuals it seemed "clear" they had the same "terrible freedom" as a human race.

"I think that to suggest that God might intervene to protect us from the corporate folly of our practices is as unchristian and unbiblical as to suggest that he protects us from the results of our individual folly or sin," he said. "God's faithfulness stands, assuring us that even in the most appalling disaster love will not let us go - but it will not be a safety net that guarantees a happy ending in this world."

Without a change of heart, Dr Williams warned, the world faced a number of "doomsday scenarios" including the "ultimate tragedy" of humanity gradually "choked, drowned, or starved by its own stupidity." The poorest and most vulnerable and our children and grandchildren would pay the heaviest price for climate change, he added.

Khadem al-Qubaisi really likes Mercedes. "I drive an SLR, and most of my other cars are also made by Daimler. Apart from a few BMWs and Porsche," said the chairman of investment company Aabar, which belings to the emirate of Abu Dhabi. That's part of the reason why his fund has just purchased a 9.1 percent stake in the Stuttgart-based automaker, he added.

Al-Qubaisi and Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche were in high spirits as they explained the deal to the world at a news conference on Monday morning. The head of Aabar justified the investment by citing soft arguments rather than hard figures. Germany's car industry was fascinating, he said, and Daimler had an investment style that he liked. But he left no doubt that other industries had potential too, especially in Germany. "There are good companies, good technology and good managers here," said al-Qubaisi.

It's a view shared by many sovereign funds in the Middle East, and there are strong signs that Arab investors will become increasingly active in Germany and Central Europe in the near future. DESPITE THE FINANCIAL CRISIS, THEY HAVE AMPLE CASH. Besides, the stock value of major companies has nosedived and governments are so busy trying to rescue their economies that their RESISTANCE TO SUPPOSEDLY DANGEROUS FOREIGN INVESTORS HAS EVAPORATED.

Mirek Topolanek's government was already in limbo from the first day it took office. After Czech parliamentary elections in the summer of 2006, no party had a majority and it took months before a coalition between Topolanek's conservative-liberal ODS, the Christian Democrats and the Green Party could finally take shape. On top of that, the government was forced to rely on two renegade voters from the Social Democratic opposition in order to pass legislation in parliament.

On four occasions, the leftists of the Social Democrats (CSSD) and the Communists pushed for no-confidence votes in a bid to force Topolanek out of office. Each time, the experienced tactician barely managed to circumvent the worst for his government.

But the fifth time, on Tuesday, he finally failed. EUROPE IS DISMAYED. In the midst of a serious economic crisis, of all times, the political classes in Prague have managed to relegate the current president of the European Council to lame duck status.

"Unless it comes up with practical measures to support the countries at the periphery of the global financial system, MARKETS ARE GOING TO SUFFER ANOTHER SINKING SPELL just as they did on February 10, 2009, when the authorities failed to produce practical measures to recapitalize the United States banking system," Soros said in testimony to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Soros said President Barack Obama could help make the G20 meeting a success by raising a possible solution that would involve increasing the amount that developing countries - from Eastern Europe to Africa - can effectively borrow from the International Monetary Fund.

The urgent task of re-inflating the global economy has to be carried out mainly by the IMF, "imperfect and beleaguered as it is, because it is the only institution available," Soros said. Soros also warned that if the United States failed to live up to its responsibility in helping solve the global crisis, "WE SHALL CEASE TO BE THE DOMINANT FINANCIAL POWER."

The blunt comments of the Czech prime minister, Mirek Topolanek, coming just a week before a crucial meeting of the Group of 20 that is supposed to show leaders coming together to cope with the crisis, were greeted with embarrassment by many Europeans, who believe that the Czechs do not represent the consensus in the European Union in any case.

What made the situation even more absurd was that MR. TOPOLANEK LOST HIS PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC ON TUESDAY, with his new lame-duck status further weakening Prague's European presidency. Adding to the awkwardness, Mr. Topolanek will host Mr. Obama in Prague a few days after the G-20 meeting, at a United States-European Union summit. SO THE OLD QUESTION OF WHO SPEAKS FOR EUROPE and when, especially in a crisis, has again become more acute, especially with persistent internal strains between more prosperous West European countries, which use the euro, and newer members in Central and Eastern Europe, which do not.

A Czech spokesman said that Mr. Topolanek meant to say that the European Union would be on the way to hell if it boosted its own spending too much. His comments were intended to highlight the differences between the United States and Europe, the spokesman said. But it is precisely those differences that everyone is currently eager to downplay before London.

His interim report in December said primary age children need a greater understanding of information technology and Sir Jim's proposals may say children should be familiar with BLOGGING, PODCASTS, WIKIPEDIA AND TWITTER by the time they go to secondary school. Under the proposals, schools will no longer be required to teach Victorian history or the Second World War but can still opt to include them, The Guardian reported.

Children will be expected to be able to place historical events which they have studied in date order under the new proposals. Schools Minister Jim Knight said: "Sir Jim Rose's report has not been completed let alone published yet - but we are already getting stories about dropping this or removing that from the curriculum. The bottom line is that we are working with experts to free up the curriculum in a way that teachers have asked us to do but British history has, and always will be, a core part of education in this country.

"Of course pupils in primary school will learn about major periods including the Romans, the Tudors and the Victorians and will be taught to understand a broad chronology of major events in this country and the wider world." Sir Jim has said his aim is to create "a primary curriculum which is challenging and constantly enriches children's understanding, where they can apply knowledge and skills learnt in one subject to better understand another".

DEFORESTATION ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 20% OF THE GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS resulting from human activities, UN data shows. The environmental charity will outline its concerns during a public lecture in central London on Thursday evening. "This year is the crunch time for forests and climate change," Earthwatch's head of climate change research Dan Bebber told BBC News.

"We are hoping for big things from the Copenhagen climate summit at the end of 2009," he added, referring to a much anticipated UN gathering. "Unless we tackle the question of forests as a mitigation method for climate change, then we will really have lost the battle to keep greenhouse gas concentrations below levels that many people would consider to be dangerous."

He added that there must be help for the poorest countries, saying that THE GLOBAL DOWNTURN HAD PUSHED 100 MILLION PEOPLE INTO POVERTY. Mr Brown was in the US, as part of a three-continent tour ahead of the G20. Following talks with UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon in New York, Mr Brown said that at the G20 summit in London "doing nothing is no longer an option".

"A hundred million people have been pushed into poverty; HALF-A-MILLION MORE CHILDREN WILL DIE as a result of the failure of our system to be able to provide enough food and help and medical aid for them," Mr Brown stressed. "We in the world community have to show the world that when there is difficulty we act. When there is suffering we are prepared to take the action that is necessary and when there is need we are prepared to meet it."

He also played down comments made by Governor of the Bank of England Mervyn King, that the government should be cautious about a further fiscal stimulus, given the high levels of UK debt. Mr Brown has been pressing the case for wealthy countries to bring forward big fiscal stimulus packages to refloat the economy. The prime minister said that what was at issue was whether people were prepared to do what was necessary to resume economic growth.

But Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek, who lost a "no confidence" vote in his own parliament on Tuesday, SUGGESTED THE US RECOVERY PLANS WERE THE "WAY TO HELL".