Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.

I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

I don't want to be involved in endless media gossip.

Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.

There was no equal pay law when I started working. I was no different to any other woman in any other job at the time.

Now children as young as nine carry AK47s which can kill 30 people in seconds.