"The Murderers Are Still among Us"

Bosnia: In July 1995, Srebrenica fell to the Serbs and thousands of Muslims were killed - it was the biggest massacre in Europe since 1945. Five years later the first of those who were driven away are returning, and the town has a Muslim mayor once again. But skeletons are still lying about in the hills above the town. Amor Masovic, head of the Bosnian government commission that is searching for the missing persons of Srebrenica, speaks of 7618 people of whom there is no trace at all and 3745 more refugees who have been found dead. Of this total of 11,363 missing Muslims, only 72 corpses have been identified by name. In Srebrenica everyone has lost family or friends, whether Serbs or Muslims. Everyone speaks of the dead on their own side and tells their children about it. And the children tell the grandchildren. Bosnian history is being written with clenched fists.

"Masterpiece or Swindle"

Banks: Serious allegations have been raised against Deutsche Bank. The European cable group UPC feels cheated by the Frankfurt money managers. The entry of the newly founded subsidiary "DB Investor" into the cable television market developed into a scandal, while grave allegations by its competitors and an explosive trial before the High Court in London cast a sinister light on the bank and its managers. Were competitors spied on? Did Deutsche Bank use insider knowledge to secure a lucrative deal in the cable business?

Dubious buyers of 10% of Commerzbank want to buy still more shares.

"Womanisers Are Wise about Life"

SPIEGEL in-depth interview with American journalist and best-selling author Joe Klein, alias Anonymus, on the success of his disclosure novel "Primary Colors", the character traits and moral principles of great politicians, and his new book "The Running Mate":

"It's pure coincidence that my book "Primary Colors" became a key novel of the Clinton era. For a long time people were puzzled over how information about Clinton's immediate surroundings could have leaked out. In fact I had simply thought up and invented most of it … In the end I was more surprised than anyone about how close I had come to the truth. … All the fuss being made about this ship-wrecked six-year-old is a good example of what has happened to politics in this country. Today, we are dealing more with a giant soap opera and because of the brightness of the spotlights it is better to send in a flying squad than a couple of inconspicuous negotiators who could get the job done. These days it's difficult for a politician to maintain his humanity in the bedlam of the media. … The great dilemma of American politics today is that the possibility of a good person also being a good politician is ruled out right from the start."

"The Stolen Children"

Custody laws: A French woman accuses her German ex-husband of withholding their sons from her; on the Internet, Americans describe how their former wives have denied them all contact with their children in Germany. German courts are also in the pillory for tolerating violations of international law. Jurists in Germany seem to make much heavier weather than their British colleagues when it comes to applying the Hague Convention on childnapping. This international agreement, which was concluded in 1980 and has been legally in force for ten years now, dictates the "immediate return" of children abducted from one of their parents, but German courts brood over cases of abduction for up to a year - by which time children often cannot be sent back abroad or to neighbouring European countries, for the simple reason that they have settled down with their German parent.

"The Long Journey to Jail"

USA: All too often foreign suspects get caught up in the wheels of American justice without adequate legal defence. The case of the German national Sven Diemer shows that even international legal treaties are ignored. Independent legal experts who have looked into the case are appalled. Slip-ups during the investigation, omissions and legally provable erroneous decisions abound. Circumstantial evidence, dubious testimonies and false information were all mixed up to fabricate charges. In addition, the entire proceedings display flagrant violations of the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Arrangements: not once did the US authorities inform the German national of his right to get in touch with the German embassy or local consulate.

"One Hundred Floating Chernobyls"

Russia: In the Russian port of Murmansk on the Arctic Circle, vast amounts of nuclear waste are rotting away in cracked concrete silos and decaying submarines, some of it even out in the open. A nuclear disaster is merely a question of time. The inhabitants of Murmansk do not realise the danger inherent in the radioactive waste deposits surrounding their town, say the people at the environmental bureau "Bellona", who see a very real and "substantial risk of a chain reaction like the one that took place in Chernobyl". Things might not stop there. According to a Bellona report a nuclear disaster in Murmansk would contaminate the entire northern hemisphere: "The huge amounts of nuclear fuel stored there alone mean that a meltdown in the Russian Arctic would have far greater consequences than anything else we have experienced this century."

"Worthy Patient of the People"

Soccer: Former football god Diego Armando Maradona is on a health cure in Castro's Cuba but does not seem to be fighting his own cocaine addition very valiantly. To the fans in Argentina, the wreck will not become an idol once again until his final hour. Only when his earthly life ends, which so many of his admirers seem firmly convinced is about to happen, will the football god Maradona make all Argentineans happy once again - and good will on Earth to all men who are only addicted to the drug soccer.

"Wine That Tastes Green"

The senses: Thousands of Germans hear colours or see sounds. Now brain researchers are trying to get to the bottom of this curious sensory deception. Some scientists suspect that the ability of people with synaesthesia to link different sensory impressions with one another might be a remnant from early infancy. Others believe that stimulating one sensory channel produces a concomitant excitement of areas of the brain associated with other senses - a kind of cerebral short-circuit. An as yet unpublished study by Hinderk Emrich of Hannover Medical University, who has been studying synaesthesia for many years and has now taken NMR scans of people with and without synaesthesia, seems to confirm this hypothesis.

"The North is Thawing"

Climate: Are there any winners of the Greenhouse Effect? In a large-scale study, Russian climatologists have reached the conclusion that Russia stands to gain. Because what the West likes to describe as a climatic catastrophe will indeed bring many blessings to the Eastern giant - especially in the far north, where the frost only releases the land from its grip for two short summer months. The Russian climatologists also derive political demands from their climatic oracle-reading. From now on, Russia should reconsider its position in international negotiations such as the World Climate Conference at the end of the year in The Hague.