A profile of Wladimir Putin, now he's running for a certain new term as Russian president.

An article on Christiania, the world's best known commune.

The account of a professor of cinema and his two-decade long obsession with finding the original print of John Cassavetes' first film, 'Shadows'. It resulted in a book. This reminds me of other Quixotic film quests, like the fictional one described in Paul Auster's 'The book of illusions'. In William Gibson's latest, 'Pattern recognition', there also is a cult of film snippets being distributed anonymously on the web.

Some of the Britons detained at Guantanamo are going to be released. This is an article describing the conditions they, and other 650 or so, have been held in.

Shark bites more than it can chew. An Australian had to swim to shore and drive away to get help to detach a shark from his leg.

An article about the nuclear bombing of Paris in 2009. You read it right.

An article on a group of Israeli women who go to military checkpoints to try to stop soldiers harassing Palestinians.