Venezuela's Chavez to Move into Gaddafi Tent

I had no idea these two were an item. Still, Hugo, don't you two want to find out if you're compatible before you move in together? Oh wait, maybe it's just platonic.

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he is going to govern temporarily from a tent so that families made homeless by recent floods can take refuge in his office.

Mr Chavez said he would have a Bedouin tent given to him by the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi put up in the garden of the presidential palace.

Twenty-five families are already living in the palace after losing their homes.

The floods have made more than 100,000 people homeless across the country.

"Put up Gaddafi's gift," said Mr Chavez during a visit to a refuge for flood victims close to the Miraflores palace in Caracas.

"You can install it in the garden at Miraflores because I'm going to move into the tent. We can put some beds in my office."

Mr Chavez is an admirer of Col Gaddafi, who lives in a huge Bedouin tent in Libya, and brought one with him when he visited Venezuela last year.