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There was an excellent debate on Newsnight last night between Gavin Esler, Prof Francis Fukuyama and a history professor at Yale - Paul Kennedy. They mainly discussed the issue of US imperialism.
Go here and click on the 'latest programe' link, before 2230 GMT today. It will then load in RealOne player. The interesting debate starts at the 37th minute but as always the whole programme is worth watching, it has exhaustive reports and analysis.
3:15:10 PM 
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Gary Younge talks about racial segregation on US television. Friends will shortly host its first main black character - in 9 years thats quite a while. Didn't one of the girls in friends have a non-white boyfriend at one point?
"I like it that there are no black friends on Friends," writes Michael Moore in Stupid White Men. "Because, in real life, friends like that don't have black friends. It's an honest, believable show."
3:12:50 PM
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The Guardian's science editor, Tim Radford, looks forward to the upcoming Mars missions in today's article. I'm looking forward to these missions - I am half expecting microbial life to be found.
3:10:24 PM
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A few papers are carrying the story that many of the antiquities at National Museum in Baghdad were stolen to order.
The three objects are a 5,000-year-old vase, an Akkadian (Babylonian-Assyrian) statue base from 2000BC and an Assyrian stone statue from about 800BC. An international alert will now be mounted for these items.
I get the feeling it must have been for a private collector - so I doubt these will be seen again.
3:03:37 PM
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The Daily Telegraph is reporting today that Mohammed al-Sahaf may have hanged himself. Apparently two Iranian newspapers are reporting his death. Can't seem to find the link on the Telegraph site.
This will not be good news for the number of websites that have sprung up. This one was recently started, posing as a blog from Mohammed himself.
2:57:52 PM
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