Not much new in the world. Oh, a few more dead soldiers in Iraq, that bomb that blew up the UN headquarters there. A few more dead Iraqis scattered around the place, no doubt. Apparenly Iraqi citizens can get US$500 if they are wounded by US soldiers and a whopping US$1500 if they are killed. It's a standard rate, apparently.

And another bomb in Israel that - this time, we are told again, definitely, absolutely, certainly - will "de-rail" the Peace Process, as if it was ever "on track". Again, US and Israeli leaders call on the Palestinian leadership, whoever that is, to halt the suicide attacks, as if they can, and again threaten reprisals if they do not. Which will enevitably lead to more anti-US and anti-Israel hatred, which will lead to more terrorism. Madness.

Mouths jabbering away at enquiries in Britain and Australia, inside sources claiming governments lied to us, government sources trying to turn the attack on their accusers.

The Milosevic trial continues in the Hague . How long will that trial take and how much money will be spent? Tribunal chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte has announced that the trial should be concluded by late 2004 or early 2005.

In Argentina, the once-famous "Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo", a group of women who lost their sons and husbands during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship, have managed to overturn a long-standing law granting immunity to those who ran the "dirty war". Justice is slow, and blows this way and that in the political winds.

What sort of world are we creating? Well, Lego has just released a new series, "World City" that features surveillance trucks and vans.