The steel abstract design was unveiled in a blaze of publicity last year with public and private backers putting up the money for the £3.5 million project.

But the southern city of Graz is angry that its most famous son is backing Bush in the upcoming US election campaign and supported the war in Iraq.

Project manager Herwig Hoeller said: "Yes, the project has been shelved because it no longer has the backing among the population that it had at the start when he was elected.

"I think I must be the only one in this town that still wants the project to go ahead."

There are also calls to rename the Arnold Schwarzenegger football stadium and Graz Deputy Mayor Walter Ferk said the city was also considering taking back an honorary award of a ring to the governor.

The statue was set to tower over other more traditional statues of lesser recognised individuals such as composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - or the Austrian Emperor Kaiser Franz Joseph.

The officers pulled up in Bergen op Zoom because they saw a car parked, outside a house, with a man waiting inside.

They got out of the car and walked over to the driver to ask what he was up to, reports Algemeen Dagblad.

The driver saw the two men coming and sped off, followed by the two policemen on foot.

Meanwhile, the burglar came out of the front door of a house, saw that his driver had gone, jumped into police car and drove away.

The policemen had to tell their bosses that they had left the keys in the ignition of the police car. The car was recovered later on the other side of town.

The men had packed the poison arrow frogs into rolls of film, reports Gazet Van Antwerpen.

Customs officers at Zaventem airport arrested the man after becoming suspicious of the amount of film they seemed to be carrying.

The rolls all had a piece of film hanging out, as if they were unused, but when officers checked they found tiny frogs inside.

The frogs, which came from South America, have been valued at about £70,000 to collectors who pay £70 to £175 for a single arrow poison frog.

The tiny, brightly-coloured frogs, which are only 15mm long, were all taken to Antwerp Zoo.

Officials at Winchester Hospital, near Boston, said the mistake was ''terrible" and ''unacceptable", reports the Boston Globe.

The sister-in-law of the woman said the child she was given nursed with far greater vigour and appeared to have longer hair than her son.

The woman alerted a hospital nurse, the sister-in-law said.

''The nurse took the baby from her arms, looked at the tags and said: "Oops, this isn't the right baby", " she added.

Hospital spokesman Mark Whitney said doctors did not anticipate any health problems for either the baby or the woman.

''It's a terrible thing for both of the families involved," Whitney said. ''I don't think we can apologise enough to the families involved.

"What we can do is rededicate ourselves to making sure this kind of thing can't and doesn't happen again."

Winchester administrators have launched an investigation.

Three girls and one boy confessed to blocking the drains, turning on the taps and leaving them to run for the whole weekend.

The school's headmaster, Carlo Arrigo Pedretti, received a letter of apology from the guilty teenagers.

"I am stunned, I cannot believe it," he said. "These teenagers have no idea of the consequence of their actions."

The flood caused around £350,000 of damage to the Parini School, one of the oldest in Milan.

The teenagers were questioned by police and may now face charges of vandalism, breaking and entering, and disrupting a public service.

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