French smear Brit dead One in three French backs Saddam Relations will be further rent by a second poll, in Le Monde, showing that only a third of the French felt that they were on the same side as the Americans and British, and that another third desired outright Iraqi victory over “les anglo-saxons”.

AOL wins Chinese approval for select broadcasts
AOL Time Warner, the US media group, announced on Tuesday it had won permission to broadcast its Chinese-language entertainment channel to hotels and selected residential compounds across China.

Language inspired by Orwell set to fool hackers
"We were inspired by Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, in which there is a language called NewSpeak which made it impossible to express political dissent," says the group's leader, Julia Jones. "NewCode was developed with similar goals, but a different focus.

	'Paranoid' North Korean Leader Not Seen in Weeks
Speculation grows daily as to the whereabouts and even the fate of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, who hasn't been seen in seven weeks, even though his country's military belligerence continued Monday with the alleged firing of a missile off North Korea's west coast.

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	Hong Kong sends Sars victims to isolation camps
Hong Kong moved more than 200 residents of a block of flats into isolation camps last night after an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome

False SARS alarm aboard U.S.-bound jet
Fears that the fast-moving respiratory ailment known as severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, had broken out aboard an American Airlines flight from Tokyo were found to have been a false alarm Tuesday, but not before the aircraft and its passengers were detained for more than two hours in a safe corner of the San Jose airport.