Foreign policy can never be the same again -- and it's all because of the internet, Gordon Brown said in an exclusive interview with the Guardian.

"People have now got the ability to speak to each other across continents, to join with each other in communities that are not based simply on territory, streets, but networks; and you've got the possibility of people building alliances right across the world."

This, he said, has huge implications. "That flow of information means that foreign policy can never be the same again.

"You cannot have Rwanda again because information would come out far more quickly about what is actually going on and the public opinion would grow to the point where action would need to be taken.

"Foreign policy can no longer be the province of just a few elites."

From Saturday comic books will have their own Louvre, a museum devoted to the art of speech-bubbles, super-heroes, boy journalists, stubborn Gauls and facetious talking animals.

The Musée de la bande dessinée in Angoulème in south-west France claims to have the largest collection of comic books and original comic book artwork in Europe, and possibly the world.

The museum will have full status as a Musée de France, alongside such institutions as the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles. Its opening marks the further consecration of the "bande dessinée" - a huge industry in France selling 33,600,000 comic books a year - as a separate art form in its own right.

A federal jury ruled that Jammie Thomas-Rasset willfully violated the copyrights on 24 songs, and awarded record companies $1.92 million.

The single mother of four from Minnesota was found liable for using the Kazaa peer-to-peer file-sharing network to download the songs over the internet.