First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novelist who was also a tough guy: "Robert Cohn was once a middleweight boxing champion of Princeton...
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Creating a tribe of ancestral savages
Darkness in El Dorado
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Epiphany that unlocked a genius
Where the Dreams Cross
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Diverse societies join in principle
Legal Traditions of the World
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Herbs add spice to American trail
The Settlement of the Americas
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Chronicle of crises that's soft and noisy
World Disasters Report
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Travels on ancient sea lanes
Pre-Columbiana
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All eyes on the space race
Steve Farrar reports on the team of scientists striving to build the world's largest telescope and the anthropologist who is observing them When the multifaceted eye of the California Extremely Large...
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Running on a clean-up ticket
Italy's star anti-corruption campaigner wants to purge politics of big business. Unfortunately for him, a tycoon with a shady past is the likely next PM On the eve of Italy's general election,...
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One press pass that will open any door
Italy's next prime minister will probably be the richest man in the land, master of the country's three main commercial TV networks and of an empire that includes newspaper, magazine and book...
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A historical postmortem
The Wellcome Trust has been rounding up witnesses to record medicine's key events. Geoff Watts reports. The principle is simple. Choose a key medical event and invite the principal dramatis personae...
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Red light finds its way onto campus
Debt is forcing an increasing number of students into the sex trade. Matthew Chapman reports. Like most 20-year-old students, Sarah takes a mobile phone wherever she goes and it is constantly going...
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Latest UK news
PM addresses Warwick academics Prime minister Tony Blair added Warwick University to his election campaign trail today, visiting its international manufacturing centre and addressing...
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Latest international news
Iraq offers free education to Palestinians Saddam Hussein has offered free education in Iraqi universities to Palestinians living in areas under Palestinian Authority control. The Iraqi president...
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From today's UK papers
Financial Times A team from the Georgia Institute of Technology has conducted a series of experiments aboard Nasa's KC-135 aircraft, testing the effects of intense sound on particles in almost zero-...