The Foreign Office last night was urgently seeking information from the Yugoslav authorities over the arrest of two British police officers accused of being armed with military equipment to train pro-western forces in Montenegro.

• If they are spies, then is the British government likely to admit to it?
• If Yugoslavia is so bad, why did NATO not finish the job?

George W Bush stepped out of the shadow of his famous father and staked his own claim to the White House last night, using his presidential nomination acceptance speech at the Republican party convention in Philadelphia to cast himself as America's national healer after the turbulent Clinton years.

• Like father, like son?
• Is it not scary how nice the right wing can be when they want to be in power?

Just hours after they were driven weeping from their farm yesterday, the Parks family were trying to work out how it had gone so wrong so quickly.

• Victims of Robert Mugabe's threat to grab even more white-owned land?
• Set up by a former worker bitter at his dismissal?

The Sri Lankan president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, announced plans yesterday for a new constitution offering, she said,the best hope of ending the civil war which has claimed 60,000 lives in 17 years.

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