Merkel to become German chancellor

Party sources report that even though Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats will get a majority of the seats in the new coalition government, Christian Democrat Angela Merkel will become Germany's new chancellor.

Which is only fitting, considering that the German voters gave her party the most votes in the recent election- thus repudiating Schroeder's leadership.

Pretty good for a woman whom the German press said had suffered a "devasating personal defeat" for not having won the election outright.