The Solomon Islands were again left without international air links yesterday as locals fled to their home provinces amid continuing ethnic tension. Mystery surrounds the attempted importation, with police authorisation, of 12 tonnes of chemicals that could have been turned into the narcotic methamphetamine, also known as ice. There is one small neighbourhood in Jakarta where thieves dare not go. Doors are often left unlocked and everybody knows everybody else. In a city where hunger is endemic, chickens roam freely.
Children play soccer and teenagers strum guitars.
An English woman frustrated by a series of failed attempts to have her washing machine mended under guarantee held a repairman hostage for three hours until the makers promised to replace it. People called Wayne and Tracey receive less sympathy from their psychiatrists than other patients with more middle-class names, according to a study. News specials Fiji coup Trouble in paradise - again. The battle for power in the Solomons. The bloody countdown to Zimbabwe's election.