Dallas, Feb 21 : A month after leaving the White House, former President George W Bush and his wife Laura, shifted to their new home in a wealthy Dallas neighbourhood.

Bush''s motorcade drove past a security barricade on Friday evening, bringing the former first couple to their new residence.

Apparently, the barricade was set up by Dallas Police and Secret Service agents to limit access to the neighbourhood.

Washington, Feb. 21 : Native American chief and hero Geronimo's descendants are suing Skull and Bones, a secret society at Yale University with ties to the Bush family, alleging that its members robbed his grave in 1918 and have kept his skull in a glass case.

The claim is part of a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Washington this week, the 100th anniversary of Geronimo''''s death, the Scotsman reports.

Langley (Virginia, US), Feb. 20 : Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said Thursday that the Bush administration's detention and interrogation policies "gave Al Qaeda a powerful recruiting tool."

Baghdad
- The trial of an Iraqi journalist who famously threw his shoes at
former US President George W. Bush in December opened in Baghdad on
Thursday, and was later adjourned.

Montazer al-Zaidi, a journalist for the Cairo-based al-Baghdadiya
television station, arrived in court clad in a suit and draped in an
Iraqi flag.

People in court waved Iraqi flags as the 30-year-old arrived, and
cheered. A crowd gathered outside the court also waved Iraqi flags, and

Washington, Feb 14 : Former President George W Bush was saved by just 24 days from running up a five trillion dollar government debt, but his presidency saw the biggest increase in the national debt as compared to the reign of earlier presidents.

The latest posting on the Department of the Treasury website shows the national debt just hit 10.759-trillion dollars. And that 5-trillion dollars and change more than it was on the day President Bush took office on January 20, 2001, the CBS News reported.

New York, Feb. 9 : THE heat is on George W. Bush and Bill Clinton to give up their precious perks.

In "Citizen-in-Chief: The Second Lives of the American Presidents," out this week, Leonard Bernardo and Jennifer Weiss claim that while early commanders-in-chief lived their later years on modest incomes, today''s ex-presidents are fat cats.

"Cashing in on the presidency has become routine," the New York Post quotes both, as saying.