Chain-link fencing: It's the new black

Apparently, everyone who's anyone wants hundreds of miles of new fencing. You've probably already heard about Bush's 700-mile long homage to Qin Shi Huang. But he's not the only one getting in on the action - Saudi Arabia is now building a barrier of its own. Though I doubt Bush has lots of good things to say about this:

Security in Iraq has collapsed so dramatically that Saudi Arabia has ordered the construction of a 550-mile high-tech fence to seal off its troubled northern neighbour.

The huge project to build the barrier, which will be equipped with ultraviolet night-vision cameras, buried sensor cables and thousands of miles of barbed wire, will snake across the vast and remote desert frontier between the countries.

The fence will be built despite the hundreds of millions of pounds that the Saudi kingdom has spent in the past two years to beef up patrols on its border with Iraq, with officials saying the crisis in Iraq is now so dangerous it must be physically shut out.