Sidelights.

Sixty percent of Europeans favor an American-led invasion of Iraq as long as the U.S. first secures the support of its allies and the United Nations, according to a survey by the German Marshall Fund.... Sixty-nine percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 back U.S. military action against Iraq, according to a Pew Research Center poll; 51 percent of Americans aged 65 or older support military action. * London mayor Ken Livingstone has said he feels safer in New York than in his home city. * One in eight Berliners live below the poverty line, states a recent government report.

* To maintain its population, Italy needs to bring in 350,000 immigrants per year, reports the United Nations. Without additional immigration, Italy's population will drop 27 percent by 2025. Retirees now account for 40 percent of Italians.

Imad Falouji, communications minister of the Palestinian Authority, told Palestinian television viewers that Israel opposes peace because of the "Jewish nature." "The Jewish nation" he said, "from the dawn of history, from the time Allah created them, lives by scheme and deceit." * Iranian Muslim cleric Hojatoleslam Hasani has called for the arrest of all dogs and their owners. "I demand the judiciary arrest all dogs with long, medium or short legs together with their long-legged owners, otherwise I will arrest them myself." * The Muhammadiyah Students Association, an Indonesia-based Muslim student group, will give the U.S. a "Terrorism Award." According to the group's chairman, Piet Hizbullah Haidir, America "does not pay any heed to the interests of other countries, and instead interferes in the affairs of other countries just to further its own interests."

Men who marched, naked in Toronto s Gay Pride Day parade were cleared of public nudity charges because they were wearing shoes. * Cornell University in New York is considering the sale of vibrators in the dispensary. Student Somjen Frazer, a researcher for the Women's Health Initiative, supports the plan as "part of a holistic health approach." ... Citing a ...