Next month the EU will decide whether communications companies should store all e-mails, faxes and phone calls for one to two years.

The Taliban were massacred in Afghanistan , about 960 at least were killed in trucks after arrest.

The US knew Iraq would use chemical attacks against Iran/a>, and supported Iraq nevertheless. Now they use the attacks as an excuse to topple Saddam.

Mice can now produce human sperm. Sounds like science fiction but it isn't.

Mice can receive human teste tissue and start producing human sperm. Sounds like science fiction but it isn't.

On a food scare that suggests that most fried food have chemicals which provoke cancer. To be checked and followed.

A curious article>/a> by someone who claims to be addicted to marijuana, and even goes to Marijuana Anonimous.

US is considering sending assassination squads all over the world 'to kill Al-Qaeda members', even without consent of governments.

On the swearing in of the new president of Colombia. One of his campaign promisses is to arm 1 million civilians to aid the military. This is likely to fuel the war, with yet more paramilitary groups forming...

It's going to be hard for Bush to continue to use 'Axis of Evil' excuse as a diversion>/a> from his own governments' blunders at home.

An article by an Israeli who had a son killed by Palestinian fighters, and yet is lucid enough to say the guilt belongs to the Israeli government.

An article by Monbiot on the need to refuse to co-operate with the US.

An interview with the pilot of the Enola Gay. He sounds a lot like the pilot in Kubrick's `Dr. Strangelove', which is very scary.

An article about South America's economic woes.

Interesting art-related sites, and odd curiosities as well.

Some links to sites loved by people working with arts in the UK.