By John Lichfield But Gordon Brown confirms he will attend opening ceremony, despite ongoing Tibet crackdown The prospect of one of the world's leading political figures boycotting the Beijing Olympic Games over Chinese actions in Tibet was raised and then seriously qualified yesterday in a sign that the invitation to China in August is causing severe differences within Western governments.

Text of report by French L'Express magazine website on 9 January [Report by Thomas Bronnec and Renaud Revel: "Press: The Net's Mutants"] Web news is emancipating itself from newspapers with Rue89, MediaPart as well as Bakchich.

By John Leicester Associated Press PARIS -- BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful -- and now, a threat to French state secrets.

BlackBerry handhelds have been called addictive, invasive, wonderful - and now, a threat to French state secrets. That, at least, is the fear of French government defense experts.

By ANGELA DOLAND PARIS - France's foreign intelligence service learned as early as January 2001 that al-Qaida was preparing a hijacking plot likely to involve a U.S. airplane, former intelligence officials said Monday, confirming a report that also said the CIA received the warning.