Megawati warms a little, but there's still ice to thaw A tentative improvement in Australian-Indonesian relations may yet emerge, writes Hamish McDonald. A rebel leader has threatened to reignite civil war unless a government promise of independence for the island of Guadalcanal is received by the end of August. John Schauble writes from Beijing. IRAN No campaign posters, please, it's an election Vandals set fire to one of the President's campaign offices. Students are arrested for chanting anti-government slogans.
Thugs smash windows at the campaign office of a conservative candidate.
After nearly a year of delays, the German parliament has opened the way for compensation payments for more than a million people forced to toil for the Third Reich. To some, it's positively un-French, writes Jon Henley from Paris. Snapshots News in pictures Turn to our popular pictorial diary of happenings from around the world. The crisis that followed after an American spy plane collided with a Chinese fighter. When Mir came down The Russian space station bids a long goodbye.