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Kevin Anderson | 09:39 UK time, Wednesday, 26 April 2006

Mourners remember ChernobylI had the 45 minute ride into work this morning on the tube so plenty of time to scan the headlines. A couple of things caught my eye. America seems to be talking about petrol prices, low by Europe's standards but outrageous to the average American.

It is the 20th anniversay of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. . Here are the .

That's just the big things. But there are a million conversations, a million stories out there. What are you talking about? What do you want to talk about?

President George W Bush has launched a full attack on petrol prices. But the Houston Chronicle asks ? Some Americans think that off the pocketbook pain of average Americans.

We ask you to tell us what you want to talk about, and we received this e-mail from Bob Dorrett in Maryland in the United States:

For one show, I would like the topic of discussion to be on peak oil.

We tried to get Bob on the programme last night to tell us and you about his concerns. Not heard of peak oil? Here's a . It's short for the Hubbert Peak Theory, so I've just learned. I've always just heard it described as peak oil.

Here's a story we had on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú News website about how peak oil had . The basic question is: Is global oil production reaching a peak?

Of course, the world and Ukraine is remembering the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. There are hundreds of stories . Over on the Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú's Action Network, people concerned about nuclear power in the UK are talking about the issue.

And there is this subject that we started talking about yesterday: Youth: Friend or foe? Take a look at the conversation that has started.

And this story caught Ros's eye. The.

  • Some other headlines that caught my eye. Japan and South Korea are having over an island midway between the two nations.
  • President Bush is expected to name FoxNews contributor and radio host Tony Snow as the .
  • Neha Viswanathan at Global Voices gives us a roundup of what Nepali bloggers are saying about ''.
  • The Sri Lankan government launches fresh attacks .

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