Israel's supreme court is close to deciding whether state-sponsored assassinations are war crimes or not.

This sounds like science fiction, but it's fact. Some researchers have developed a plant that turn its leaves red to signal it's growing over a land mine.

A week spent with refugees in England. See also the film 'Dirty Pretty Things'.

An article about ideas of terraforming Mars.

An interesting peek at Stanley Kubrick's archive.

Marco Evaristti, a Danish artist, has just dyed an iceberg red. He's the one with the golden-fish-in-blender fame.

An interesting article about traditional Chinese medicine, and how western medicine is catching up with it, identifying the active compounds in some of the extracts used.

Bush had approved a plan to attack the Taliban before September 11th, it transpires.

On a curious film I saw recently, whose star is a dwarf: The Station Agent.

A few reviews of Mel Gibson's 'Passion of Christ' film: one by David Mamet, and one by Julia Neuberger, a rabbi.

An article by Andrew Jarecki, director of the film 'Capturing the Friedmans', a very good, if disturbing, documentary I've seen recently.

The Coca Cola company has another PR disaster in their hands. In the U.K., they're withdrawing their Dasani water make from the market, because it contains unacceptable levels of a cancer-causing substance. On top of that, it was revealed that they were just adding some minerals to water from the tap, and contaminating it in the process (as well as increasing the price from 0.03 to 95 pence per bottle). What a shame! This reminds me of their launch, and subsequent withdrawal, of their Fruitopia juice drink in Brazil, which failed spectacularly as we have much better, cheaper, fresh juice in any corner shop...

A bizarre website, with no apparent goal other than befuddle the visitor. It works.

A well-humoured account of a climb of the Kilimanjaro. It reminded me of a 12-hour long ordeal I went through with some friends (?) up a mountain in the Spanish Pirenees...

An interview with the British prisoners recently released from Guantanamo.

A comment on the use of torture by US officials in Guantanamo.

How to behave in a public bath-house, or sento, in Japan.

An article about how Rio funk may find its way into the U.K.'s music scene.

An article on the popular success of contemporary documentary cinema. And a link to the work of Edward Burtynsky, a photographer whose exhibition at Art Gallery of Ontario I have just visited today. While we're at art, check out a peculiar journal, Strange Attractor.

A profile of John Kerry, probable democrat candidate to the white house.