Video proof: Bush stole his own watch

There's an old journalistic adage: if a story sounds too good to be true, then it probably isn't.

Now, thanks to the the US television network NBC and its "crack team at the White House", one of this week's greatest mysteries - did President Bush really have his watch stolen during a walkabout in Albania? - appears to have been solved.

He did not. As the White House insisted all along, he took it off his wrist and put it safely in his pocket.

Hundreds of thousands of people yesterday watched a YouTube video from an Albanian TV station in which it appears that the presidential watch, a $50 Timex inscribed "George W Bush President January 20,2001", is lifted from the presidential wrist during a chaotic walkabout in the town of Fushë Krujë.
The moral of the story was clear: even the world's most powerful man needs to keep an eye on his belongings.