ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST: The Guardian retracts a story:

In our front page lead on May 31 headlined “Straw, Powell had serious doubts over their Iraqi weapons claims,” we said that the foreign secretary Jack Straw and his US counterpart Colin Powell had met at the Waldorf Hotel in New York shortly before Mr Powell addressed the United Nations on February 5. Mr Straw has now made it clear that no such meeting took place. The Guardian accepts that and apologises for suggesting it did.

A reader emails that Staw wasn’t even in New York when the meeting was supposed to have happened. I suppose that would account for the apologetic tone.