But civil liberty groups said last night that the proposed powers had more in common with "big brother" dictatorships than liberal democracies. The move has also set the UK on a collision course with Germany and Finland, who are determined to block it.The draft report by an EU working party recommends that internet service companies, telecommunication firms and mobile phone operators should keep the records of every call made, e-mail sent or website visited for seven years.Law enforcement agencies such as police forces, customs agents and intelligence services would get free access to trawl through the data when investigating any crime.Current EU legislation forces law enforcers to get permission every time they want to tap electronic communications or search for evidence during investigations. The existing laws also restrict the amount of time that communications firms can keep data before it has to be destroyed.Although the "resolution" would have no legal force, it would help provide guidelines on what EU member states should request from their telecoms providers.. Rescuers made an initial contact with eight Swiss vacationers trapped for two days in a flooded cave in Goumois, France, and all are alive, a top aide to the prefect of the Doubs region said Friday. Rescuers made an initial contact with eight Swiss vacationers trapped for two days in a flooded cave in Goumois, France, and all are alive, a top aide to the prefect of the Doubs region said Friday.

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Herve Tonnaire, reached by telephone, provided no further details, but said that the eight had been contacted at about 8:40 a.m. Further information was not immediately available, and rescue workers had previously indicated they were growing more pessimistic.The news came after rescue workers reached one of two known air pockets in a flooded cave where eight Swiss vacationers have been trapped for two days, but found it empty, officials said.Rescuers dug a hole from above into the cave to gain access to the cavity 70 metres from the long, winding cave's entrance.

A narrow passage had blocked divers from making their way into the air pocket.The next known pocket of air is at 300 metres in the 415–meter cave near the Swiss border, according to Jean–Luc Fabre, deputy prefect of Pontarlier, in France's Doubs region.Swiss and French rescue workers, divers and civil defense personnel had worked through the night to contact the five men and three women – all amateurs on a tour, and aged between 25 and 30.Fresh rain overnight threatened to further raise the water level in the cave, known locally as the "Bief–du–Paroud.""It's a fight against time and water," Alain Gehain, head of Franche–Comte region where the grotto is located, said Thursday night.It was not clear to rescuers whether the group had managed to find an air pocket that could save them.Rescuers have been at the site since midnight Wednesday, but only managed to get inside Thursday evening. Some air pockets were found, allowing rescuers to keep hopingSeven of the vacationers were student social workers from a Zurich college and one was a teacher. Television reports said they had undertaken the tour to help develop their ability to face challenges in their careers.The cave, some 20 kilometers (30 miles) from the Swiss border, is not deep but wends its way over some 415 metres. It is considered an ideal cave for beginning spelunkers, but, experts here said, only in correct meteorological conditions.Gehain said rescuers were making slow progress into the cavern and were preparing for a lengthy operation.Much of the work here has centered on trying to lower the water level, using eight pumps brought in..

Storks have have started nesting on an old factory chimney and colonies of swallows and house martins have invaded the train station. It would be fine if it was a rural village, but this is Vukovar, a town that housed 50,000 people a decade ago and was one of the great industrial centres of Yugoslavia. Storks have have started nesting on an old factory chimney and colonies of swallows and house martins have invaded the train station. It would be fine if it was a rural village, but this is Vukovar, a town that housed 50,000 people a decade ago and was one of the great industrial centres of Yugoslavia. Ten years after the Yugoslav army siege that claimed 5,000 lives and came to symbolise the futility and the horror of the Yugoslav wars, peace has returned to the border town between Croatia and Serbia. Last week, the Croatian parliament finally adopted a law on rebuilding Vukovar, which aims to give people and businesses incentives to return to the ruined shell, dubbed the "Hero City" by Croatian nationalists for the stubborn resistance offered by the fighters inside to the powerful Yugoslav army.Liberals have long hoped Vukovar might provide an example of ethnic reconciliation between Croats and Serbs. But although the fighting stopped long ago, there is little that is heroic about Vukovar today and no sign of reconciliation.Croats live with Serbs side by side in the wrecked town, but they might as well be divided by a glass wall They pass each other in the streets in silence They go to different churches on Sunday Their children attend separate classes in school.