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Bush forced to repeat a term after failing end-of-year exams

America today woke up to the news that George W. Bush will remain US president for a further four years after officials from the Electoral College ruled that he had failed to secure the grades needed to graduate from the White House. A sub-clause of the US Constitution requires a serving president to be held back and forced to repeat a term if he does not make the necessary progress.

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Posted: Jan 20th, 2009
More from Politics, World News



World nervous as Ahmadinejad draws Bush in UN ‘Secret Santa’

Opportunity for Iran to thank America for making the world a safer place.

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Posted: Dec 4th, 2008
More from World News



America still making a big deal about Rounders

Sports fans around the world continue to be amazed that the United States has not yet run out of enthusiasm for the playground sport of rounders. The popular bat and ball game traditionally involves two teams taking turns to hit a ball as hard as they can and then running around four jumpers or woolly hats arranged in a square. ‘They have done away with the piled up clothes and have the pitch marked out especially,’ said bemused British ex-pat Mike Johnson.

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Posted: Aug 16th, 2008
More from Sport



Ku Klux Klan angry at call to remove hoods

Klansman‘They’re just asking for a bit of fair-minded tolerance’

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Posted: Oct 16th, 2006
More from Faith