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

No two wars are identical.

I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

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.

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.