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Madam Morison Fogus Nicole from London, We have the news first.
BBC World News with Mike Cooper.

President Bush is to make a keynote address on Iraq on American television shortly and will say that some American troops will return home in the coming month. Excerpt released advance of the speech suggests that the President will tell Americans that the security of Iraq can now be maintained with fewer troops. From Washington here is Justin Webb.

President will be sitting at his desk in the Oval Office, the most formal of the settings available to him. He will tell Americans that the security of Iraq can now be maintained with fewer troops. The key phrase, White House officials say, will be "return on success". The "return on success" the president will deliver is that most of the 30,000 extra troops sent to Iraq this year will leave by next July. This is not, the President will stress, a reduction come what may, it is possible that larger numbers might have to stay, but there's now a firm public intention to bring them back. Mr. Bush's speech comes shortly after the killing of one of Iraq's key Sunni leaders opposed to Al-Qaeda, Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, who'd been cooperating with the American military in the western province of Anbar.

The biggest fine ever seen in the arena of international sport has been imposed on the McLaren Motor Racing team for making use of sensitive information belonging to its main rival Farari, the team was fined $100 million. From Paris, Andy Swiss reports.

While McLaren and particularly Lewis Hamilton will be relieved that they have not been kicked out of the driver's championship, this is a punishment of uNPRecedented severity, a $100 million fine and a loss of all this season's constructors' points. McLaren will also have to have their 2008 car independently analyzed. The FIA decided McLaren had used information from a confidential Farari dossier to their advantage, something the team has always denied.

One of Britain's biggest mortgage lenders Northern Rock has applied to the Bank of England for emergency financial support. The request has been made because Northern Rock's struggled to raise finances from commercial markets, following the recent credit squeeze in the United States. Robert Paston has the details.

Northern Rock has been one of the fastest growing British banks, but it's now set to become famous for reasons it would rather keep quiet. It's become the first bank in years to seek emergency funding from the Bank of England in its role as lender of last resort. Northern Rock's problem is not that it's making colossal losses or is bust, but it feared that it could run out of cash. Why? Because in the market turmoil of the past few weeks investors and other banks have been increasingly reluctant to lend to it.

Police in Germany have arrested ten people suspected of involvement in an internet scam that cost its victims hundreds of thousands of dollars. The suspects from Germany, Russia and Ukraine are said to have sent hundreds of bogus E-mails to bank customers, seeking personal financial details. Their accounts were then empty and the money transferred to Russia and Ukraine.

World news from the BBC.

A suspected suicide bombing at an army building has killed at least 15 soldiers south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad. There has been a series of attacks on military targets in Pakistan since the army stormed a mosque in Islamabad in July. Earlier there was heavy fighting around a military post in Waziristan close to the Afghan border.

The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a declaration, calling for the world's 390 million indigenous people to be given better human rights protection and more control over their land and resources. The non-binding agreement outlines the rights of indigenous peoples to maintain their separate cultures and identities, and asks governments to compensate them for confiscated land. Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United States which have large indigenous populations voted against the measure. Robert Hill is Australia's Ambassador to the UN.
"It is important to stress that any right to traditional lands must be subject to national laws, otherwise the provisions would be both arbitrary and impossible to implement ".

The government of El Salvador has presented a bill to parliament to free hundreds of old inmates and prisoners with terminal illnesses from the country's jails. The head of the country's penal system Guilbert Caserus said around 15 hundred prisoners would be given conditional releases under the proposed changes. But Mr. Caserus told the media that those guilty of murder would not be eligible.

A British company says it's developed a new kind of chewing gum which will not stick to anything, unlike the conventional gum which is a curse to the street cleaners and janitors around the world. Towns and cities spend hundreds of millions of pounds each year cleaning gum from pavement, staircases and bus seats. But now a company linked to Bristol University in western England says that it has developed a chemical additive which when added to chewing gum, makes it extremely difficult to stick to anything, and says that when it does, it should wash away with ease.

A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a mess hall inside a high-security base used by a Pakistani counterterrorism force, killing at least 15 soldiers. from Reuters fujunzhao