SCIENCE-YUGOSLAVIA: No Human Clone for Serbia

The sensational announcement last month that a human clone is to be born in a private clinic by January 15 in Serbia caused an avalanche of denials by local experts and health ministry officials.

/ARTS WEEKLY/ART: An Africa Regained in London

Ghanaian sculptor Al Anatsui has become one of Africa's foremost artists over his long career. A visit to London's October Gallery that is currently hosting an exhibition of his most recent work shows why.

GIBRALTAR: 20 Arrested in Protest against Old Oil Tankers

Six environmental activists and 14 journalists were arrested Monday in Gibraltar during a protest organised by Greenpeace International, which accuses the government of the British colony of complicity in allowing oil spills to occur by accepting ageing tankers in its port.

POLITICS-EUROPE: Peace Campaign on a War Footing

This is becoming something of a peace campaign staged on a war footing. Thousands of groups are coming together in some of the largest peace demonstrations Europe has ever known.

ENVIRONMENT-FRANCE: New Battle against Oil from Prestige

This is turning into a battle against the wind. Just as some 900 firefighters, fishermen, soldiers and volunteers thought they had cleaned up oil spills from the sunken tanker Prestige, the wind changed direction last week, and they had to start again.

RIGHTS-FRANCE: Third World Women Enslaved in Paris

Elisa slaved away in a house in Paris from morning to night for years, and she counts herself lucky. She was never paid, but at least she was never beaten, and finally she managed to escape.

RIGHTS-EUROPE: Millions of Roma Go Hungry

Up to five million Roma people live in conditions "closer to those of sub-Saharan Africa than to Europe," says a new study by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) released in London Thursday.

ENVIRONMENT-RUSSIA: North Begins to Crack in the Cold

Minus 48 centigrade is cold even for a Russian winter, but what has pinched this year is not as much the cold as the breakdown of the heating infrastructure in many areas of the North.

RIGHTS-SERBIA: Women Seen as ‘Endangered Species’

A new study on the status of women in Serbia says that "in many aspects women can be described as an endangered species" although they are more than half the population.

ENVIRONMENT-RUSSIA: New Deal to Clean Up Nuclear Waste

Russia has reached an agreement with its Nordic neighbours to clean up nuclear waste threatening the Arctic region.

POLITICS-FRANCE: Opposition to War on Iraq Rises

Public opposition to a war in Iraq has risen in the face of fears that President Jacques Chirac is preparing his troops for military action.

POLITICS-BRITAIN: Govt Steps Back from Cricket in Zimbabwe

British ministers have expressed disapproval for England playing a match in Zimbabwe during the World Cup cricket next month, but say the cricket board can take its own decision.

PORTUGAL: Weak Border Controls Attract Undocumented Immigrants

Portugal's border police issued a warning this week regarding the extreme permeability of the borders along Europe's southwestern frontier to the inflow of undocumented immigrants.

RIGHTS-YUGOSLAVIA: Angry Start to New Year

The New Year dawned in Serbia with an outbreak of several incidents of violence over racial and religious differences over several days.

POLITICS-GREECE: EU Presidency Provides a New Role

Despite lingering domestic problems, Greece has assumed the rotating presidency of the European Union a far different - and stronger - country than the last time it held that position in 1994.

RIGHTS-SPAIN: Five Undocumented Immigrants Drown in Shipwreck

The number of undocumented immigrants attempting to enter Spain continues to grow along with the number of people who die in the attempt. On Thursday, five bodies were recovered after a motorised rubber boat carrying at least 35 people from North Africa sank off the coast of southern Spain.

/2002-2003/RUSSIA: Chechnya’s Ecological Pains Crying For Relief

-Security issues, not environmental concerns, are drawing the focus yet again - in the wake of the suicide bomb blasts at Chechnya's pro-Kremlin government headquarters in Grozny.

/2002-2003/RUSSIA: Chechnya’s Ecological Pains Crying For Relief

Security issues, not environmental concerns, are drawing the focus - yet again - in the wake of the suicide bomb blasts at Chechnya's pro-Kremlin government headquarters in Grozny.

POLITICS-SLOVAKIA: Cleaning Up on Way to the West

Ministers are moving quickly to deal with what Western leaders call the most serious issue facing Slovakia - corruption.

2002-2003/FRANCE: Right Turn in the Land of Revolution

This was the year of a landmark turn in recent French history. A nation that once led a revolution against an absolutist monarch, which formulated human and political rights for all people, took a sharp turn to the right.

POLITICS-SLOVAKIA: Cleaning Up on Way to the West

Ministers are moving quickly to deal with what Western leaders call the most serious issue facing Slovakia - corruption.