Page redirect

I would like my domain to point to /index.php?id=news, rather than /index.php

how can I do this?

This is how I do it.

<?php
include("headers.php");

if (is_file("$page.php")) {
include("$page.php");
}

else {
include("news.php");
}

include("footers.php");
?>

and i just link to things like this

<a href="index.php?page=media">Media</a>

http://www.spiderseatbabies.com/swee/index.php?page=media

I think they are just trying to get index.php to redirect to a new page when its called. You could place this at the top of index.php
<?php
header ("Location: http://www.yourdomainname.com/index.php?id=news");
?>

except the one you just gave me makes you have to change your cookie setting around..