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A prehistoric village has been unearthed in Italy, more than 3,500 years after it was buried by Mount Vesuvius, the same way the Roman city of Pompeii was destroyed centuries later.

Experts call the find at Nola, near Naples, ?sensational? and say the site could be the world?s best preserved early Bronze Age village. Professor Stefano De Caro, the head archaeologist for the area, says it?s a ?new Pompeii,? with everyday life frozen in a suspended state, just as it was in Pompeii in 79 AD.

The site is north of both Pompeii and Vesuvius, and it looks as if the community was thriving when it was surprised by the eruption. ?We knew that Vesuvius erupted a number of times, before and after Pompeii, including in particular in about 1750 BC,? says De Caro.
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George Bush has ordered a plan to destroy the government of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to the Sunday Observer newspaper in the U.K.

The Pentagon plans air attacks on Iraqi installations as well as attacks by Iraqi opposition forces on Baghdad, the same way the Northern Alliance was used to attack Khabul in Afghanistan after we first bombed the area. Washington plans to launch the military campaign early in 2002.
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Trace amounts of anthrax have been found at a postal facility that sorts mail for Oxford, Connecticut, where 94-year Ottilie Lundgren mysteriously died of the disease last month. The source of her exposure baffled officials, who were investigating how she could have come in contact with tainted mail.
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Nasty new viruses that use devious tricks to infect computers will become even more common in the future. The anti-virus software company Sophos says that the Nimda worm was the most widespread virus this year, even though it first appeared late in the year, in September.

?Nimda was effective because it could infect computers with a variety of techniques,? says Graham Cluley, Sophos senior technology consultant. ?It is likely that we will see more multiple-pronged attacks in the future.?

Sophos warns that personal computer users are increasingly likely to be the victims of hacker attacks, due to the growth of ?always-on? high-speed internet connections, such as Roadrunner and DSL.
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