Wednesday Law Report: 28 July 1999 Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Adan; Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Subaskran; Regina v Secretary of State for the Home Department, ex parte Aitseguer Court of Appeal (Lord Woolf, Master of the Rolls, Lord Justice Laws and Lord Justice Mance) 23 July 1999

I found myself right at the heart of the world's most powerful organisation during the final phase of the Uruguay Round trade negotiations in Geneva in 1993. Along with other reporters I was privy to the deliberations of the world's superpowers. But the majority of Third World trade ministers had no such access: they were forced to wait for hours on end in the coffee bar, begging the emerging journalists to tell them the latest developments in the negotiations.

Richard Tomlinson: the spy who couldn't take it any more

BORN IN Switzerland in 1909, living most of her long life in the United States, the artist Lucienne Bloch is best-known internationally for her friendship with a Mexican couple.

THE PICTURES were grainy, staged, yet none the less dramatic for that - American soldiers with the Stars and Stripes clearly visible on their left shoulders, faces bruised and full of apprehension, appearing on Serbian television as prisoners of war.

THEY MAY look cute and a bit dim but hamsters have an acute sense of where they are in life and where they want to go.

Women liked Henry James because, in an oppressive age, he understood their potential, argues Lyndall Gordon

Sir: I cannot be the only person on the planet who agrees with Bill Clinton that most of his activities don't constitute sexual relations. In common with all the people I met and went out with in the late Fifties and early Sixties, I believed there was something immoral (certainly for a woman) in having sex with a near-stranger, but heavy petting was perfectly permissible and a man would certainly not think you were loose if that was all you were prepared to do!

AS THE main wreckage of the Swissair flight which crashed in the Atlantic off the Canadian coast killing all 229 on board was being inspected yesterday, relatives of the six Britons on the plane spoke of their shock and grief.

A SPECIAL flight took relatives of the 229 dead last night to the scene of the disaster, where they were preparing to carry out the grim task of identifying the remains.

THE PREMIER League said yesterday it was prepared to negotiate with Media Partners, the Italy-based marketing company behind a proposed super league, over the future of football in Europe.

Sir: Aoife O'Riordain's article on pizza was most interesting (Fast Track, 28 May). I lived at one time with a Sicilian pizzaiolo. Whilst staying with his sister I was able to eat the real thing, and wonderful it was . The base was thick (certainly not thin and crispy) and the topping was sparse, although local herbs were added, and naturally she had the traditional oven. One of the things that sorts out the proper pizzas from the others is that the dough should be made the day before.

ALEX ZULLE won the fourth stage time trial of the Tour of Romandie at Romanel, Switzerland, yesterday ahead of his team-mate and the overall leader, Laurent Dufaux.

As a radical force for change, science has a power that can surpass even politics. This was something Chaim Weizmann - father of biochemistry and Israel's first president - knew well. Hugh Aldersey-Williams describes a remarkable life