Global cancer cases could increase by 50% to 15m by 2020, experts predict - but a third could be prevented by healthy lifestyles. [BBC News]

NASA released Monday a library of email messages and other documents related to the Columbia... [spacetoday.net]

Some young offenders are to be spared jail and helped by adult volunteers in a shake-up of sentencing policy. [BBC News]

Something to keep an eye on, in more than one way: Tim Bishop's new pMachine-powered SARSWatch.org weblog, tracking the other really scary thing in the news these days. [Phil Ringnalda]

Arts: Soul legend Edwin Starr died yesterday at his Nottingham home, aged 61. [Guardian Unlimited]

European electronic collaborative learning resource launched. To support the growing interest in the Communication bit of ICT in education, the EU funded ITCOLE (Innovative Technologies for Collaborative Learning and Knowledge Building) project opened a site that agregates practice, resources, ideas and discussion about on-line collaborative learning. Not surprisingly, they want you to chip in. [CETIS: Standards in Education Technology]