A home-made napalm bomb was detonated two weeks ago at a secret paramilitary training camp in New Zealand attended by Maori sovereignty activists, it has been revealed. Testing by dissidents of the napalm - a highly flammable petroleum gel notoriously used by American forces during the Vietnam War - appears to have been what triggered raids by elite police anti-terror squads, the culmination of a covert surveillance operation that had been going on since late last year.

Good news on the cancer front: Death rates are dropping faster than ever, thanks to new progress against colorectal cancer. A turning point came in 2002, scientists conclude Monday in the annual "Report to the Nation" on cancer. Between 2002 and 2004, death rates dropped by an average of 2.1 percent a year.

When it comes to the question of whether you'll get cancer, it often seems that your fate is a mysterious combination of factors beyond your control. We all know someone who smoked, drank and ate bacon every day yet escaped a diagnosis. And far more disheartening, we also know people who lived a virtuously healthy life only to develop the disease. Add to that the confusion over what actually is the right way to avoid the Big C. In fact, three in four people believe there are so many recommendations about preventing breast, colon, lung and other cancers that it's hard to know which guidelines to follow.