Last week in The Hague, a Dutch court began hearing a case brought by surviving relatives of the 8000 Bosnian Muslim civilians, supposedly under United Nations military protection, who were murdered by Serb forces at Srebrenica in 1995.
There is no Plan B.
Two hundred and seventy people convicted of no crime languish in Guantanamo, and the British parliament has just voted to extend detention without trial to 42 days.
The search is on for a fuel that does not contribute to global warming and, when it is found, conventional oil will be in trouble.
In the Sherlock Holmes story Silver Blaze, the world's most famous private detective refers to "the curious incident of the dog in the night".
Following last week's elections, Serbia will get a pro-EU government that gets on with negotiating the country's membership of the European Union, or it will get a socialist-nationalist coalition that takes "a short trip on the Titanic".
Despite the non-involvement of major manufacturers such as the United States, Israel, China, India and Pakistan, the treaty banning cluster bombs signed last week in Dublin stigmatises their deployment and is thus a good thing.
Recent soaring grain prices have been fuelled by over-reaction to minor mismatches of supply and demand. The real problem lies in a growing world population and declining global food production, hampered by the effects of climate change.
What connects oil at $135 a barrel with last month's discovery of huge cracks in the Ward Hunt ice shelf off Ellesmere Island at the top of Canada's Arctic archipelago? And what might connect those two things with a new, even Colder War?