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Surviving in a land justice forgot They tortured and murdered men, women and children and the fanatical Khmer Rouge chiefs now want it all left in the past. James Pringle in Phnom Penh finds they might just get away with it Four corners Foreign Editor David Pratt introduces the week's world news Bad hair, bad wives and now bad politics force Schroeder into reform He wouldn't win an election and his popularity has plummeted but, asks Angus Roxburgh in Brussels, is the German chancellor really committed to change? Drugs war hits a high as sick demand medicinal marijuana The government says smoking pot is illegal even if you're seriously ill ... but 80% of the population disagree. Ros Davidson in San Francisco reports Prayers for peace at hajj pilgrimage From Alaa Shahine in Mecca Soaring abortion rate sounds Stalinist alarm A 70% termination rate has seen communist rhetoric return to Romania, as pro-life doctors talk of a dying nation. Gabriel Ronay reports World digest Bush tested on nuclear crisis Opposition leader faces gallows in Mugabe trial Morgan Tsvangirai will be hanged, says Fred Bridgland in Johannesburg, unless the lawyer who saved Nelson Mandela can deliver again Pakistan hits back in envoy expulsion From Naveen Thukral and Mike Collett-White in New Delhi and Islamabad Australia's anti-terrorism kit ... one fridge magnet and a pair of rubber gloves As John Howard prepares his country for war, Nick Squires in Sydney finds many believe his campaign is a waste of time and money Three months late, the curtain falls on a new musical From Ron Popeski in Moscow 'Russia with love' hijacker held From Hatice Aydogduin in Ankara News of the World And finally, the best of the rest