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Plans for Britain's biggest quarry finally ended.

FoE Scotland report on the withdrawal of plans by the French aggregate company, Lafarge Aggregates.

Rwanda is marking the 10th anniversary of the 1994 genocide.

Visit the following links for fuller coverage: Rwanda site - memorial in pictures Official website of Rwanda UNICEF Criminal Tribunal Human Rights Watch: Uprooting the rural poor in Rwanda Guardian report: Peace but no reconciliation

Biotech firm ditches GM maize plans

This means that GM crops are unlikely to be grown in the UK until at least 2008.

Sellafield 'failing to comply'

Sellafield could face stiff penalties for not meeting stringent European Union (EU) rules on nuclear waste.

Privacy International news -

thanks from PI for support and for signing the letter to the ICAO on biometric travel documents.

Madrid 'blueprint' is a dodgy document

- press claimed it to be an Al-Qaeda plot for Madrid - it was actually about Iraq...

Should the United Nations run the Internet?

A summit last week about how best to run the Internet ended with members calling for more UN control.

Army patrols tense Ivorian city:

25 people were killed in the main Ivory Coast city of Abidjan after security forces stopped a banned opposition march going ahead.

EU's first counter-terrorism coordinator appointed.

But nearly half the proposals have little or nothing to do with tackling terrorism.

Global oil and mining sleaze uncovered - Global Witness reports

that secrecy about revenues paid to governments by oil and mining companies has abetted the disappearance of vast sums from the public purse.