The World Wrestling Federation is preparing to take on Wall Street.

LIKE A STORM blowing across the plains from Texas, George W Bush, the man most likely to carry Republican hopes in next year's presidential elections, set out on his first campaign trip yesterday.

Low & Bonar sells

A British online service provider is poised for expansion in the US and Europe, writes Roger Trapp

The Lone Star state is known for extremes, and extremists.

SOME COMPARED it to the sound of a jumbo jet or a train coming through the house. Others remembered the bomb that destroyed the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995. The destruction was sudden, terrible and all but irresistible, regardless of how sophisticated America is becoming in its ability to predict and spot these vast natural bulldozers that sweep across the plains states every year.

THE SELF-proclaimed "Greatest Show in Bluegrass", Hot Rize was for 12 dazzling years amongst the finest outfits in the genre, marrying superb musicianship with showmanship.

Rough and rugged Fort Worth lies at the heart of Texan cowboy country. Now it's trying to shed its Wild West image and become a little more cultural.

Why America expects to see another George Bush in the White House

GEORGE W BUSH, by far the most likely Republican candidate for the White House in next year's election, put himself forward yesterday as the man who could reunite America behind the Republican Party.

Lost in translation

A FEW drops of blood were likely to become the centrepiece of a racially charged murder trial in Texas yesterday.

He made two great American movies, then disappeared - for 25 years. But now, Terrence Malick is back.

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