Morocco offers US monkeys to detonate mines [respice prospice]

The SARS virus is a problem. It is scary. A variant of the common cold that kills 4% of its victims. It has shown up in Hong Kong, Singapore, Michigan, New York, Kansas, and many other places. Contrast how we approached this threat to what we are doing in the Gulf. A combination of intelligence, cooperation, and complexity has identified this virus in a couple of days. We are now on the hunt for a solution. Together. [John Robb's Radio Weblog]

Could a global rebellion against US values presage the decline of its empire, asks Mark Tran. [Guardian Unlimited]

Lonely Planet declares Britain 'quite simply the most beautiful island on earth' but it has a few reservations. [Guardian Unlimited]

Depleted uranium (DU) ammunition used by Nato in the mid-1990s in Bosnia-Herzegovina is still polluting air and water there, the UN reports. [respice prospice]

Comment: Five PoWs are mistreated in Iraq and the US cries foul. What about Guantanamo Bay, asks George Monbiot. [Guardian Unlimited]