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Anders Breivik This article is more than 9 years oldNorwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik's father to publish bookThis article is more than 9 years oldJens Breivik's My Fault? A Father's story will deal with his role in life of killer and is said to be 'self-trial' by ex-diplomatThe father of Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik will publish a book entitled, My Fault? A Father's Story, on his role in the life of the killer, his publisher has announced. [Read More]

Food in seasonFoodSeasonal food: watercressThis could put your nose out of joint - it's our guide to buying, storing, cooking and eating watercressUK watercress season. Photograph: guardian.co.ukThe health claims made on behalf of watercress are some of the most spectacular of any so-called 'superfood', and as it's been eaten for several millennia there are now plenty of bizarre notions attached to its consumption. Amongst other things it's been suggested as an anti-baldness measure (by the Romans and Anglo-Saxons, the latter are believed to have also applied it externally), in Ireland as a 'pure' food for ascetic hermits, as a mental stimulant aiding decision-making (both the ancient Greek general Xenophon and the Persian king Xerxes made their troops eat it), as a rejuvenator for the more mature lady (Francis Bacon - the Elizabethan one, not the painter) and in common with just about everything edible and by almost everyone, as an aphrodisiac. [Read More]

UK newsWhitear died of heroin overdoseThe jury at the inquest into the death of Rachel Whitear confirmed today that she died of a heroin overdose. It was previously thought the amount of heroin in the 21-year-old's body was not enough to kill her, but further tests were carried out and revealed that her death was heroin-related. The 10-strong jury in this inquest, the second into Whitear's death, also returned an open verdict on a number of other points, saying they did not know whether Whitear injected herself or was alone when she died. [Read More]

PetsOwners worried about the climate cost of traditional pet food are switching to crickets, mealworms and black soldier flies First there was recycling, then cutting down on flights, now feeding your pets insects is the latest lifestyle choice to help tackle climate breakdown. Environmentally minded pet owners are choosing to feed their animals meals made out of crickets, mealworms and black soldier flies in an attempt to curb the huge carbon emissions produced by raising livestock for traditional, meat-based diets. [Read More]

China100 tonnes of pollutants spilled into Chinese riverAround 100 tonnes of pollutants flowed into the Songhua river in the chemical spill that forced a Chinese city to cut off water supplies to almost four million people, it was reported today. The reports came as another industrial accident brought fears of a new pollution crisis hundreds of miles away. Chinese media said the Songhua spill, caused by an explosion at a chemical factory in the city of Jilin on November 13, resulted in an 80km (50 mile) stretch of benzene flowing down the river to the north-eastern city of Harbin. [Read More]

Laura Bates on everyday sexismSex This article is more than 7 years oldA frank, educational, instructional website about female sexuality? OMGYes!This article is more than 7 years oldLaura BatesThe website, recently endorsed by Emma Watson, aims to “demystify” female pleasure via touch-screen tutorials, down-to-earth demonstrations and frank discussions of female sexual pleasure Hot on the heels of the recent viral success of the How to Make Me Come Tumblr, a new website is cashing in on the long-awaited breakdown of our societal taboos around discussions of female sexual pleasure. [Read More]

Henry KissingerLettersHenry Kissinger’s role in Bengali massacreIn 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, writes Robert Evans Jonathan Steele’s obituary of Henry Kissinger (29 November) omits reference to his part in what the author Gary J Bass calls “one of the worst moments of moral blindness in US foreign policy”, when in 1971 he advised President Richard Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator, Gen Yahya Khan, in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan. [Read More]

US news blogKony 2012Kony 2012 group threatens lawsuit over 'wartime' Kickstarter-like parody siteNYU students conceived Kickstriker.com at a hoax, but Invisible Children isn't laughing and has ordered them to take it downYou may have missed it last month when Kickstriker.com, a darkly humorous, militarized play on Kickstarter, quietly rolled out. Wired's Spencer Ackerman, one of the few who picked up on the site early on, called it a "wartime version" of the popular crowdfunding site, " [Read More]

Temple of Dendur Egyptian art at the Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Photograph: AlamyPhilanthropic heirs to OxyContin fortune have a ‘moral duty to help make this right’ says the widow of one of Purdue Pharma’s founders US drug companies accused of being ‘cheerleaders’ for opioids by Joanna Walters in New YorkThe Sackler Drug Rehab Facility, unlike the prestigious Sackler art galleries of New York and London does not exist. [Read More]

India's figurehead for independence and non-violent protest pleads with the leader of Nazi Germany 23 July 1939 As tensions mounted in Europe following Germany’s occupation of Czechoslovakia, Mohandas Gandhi, the famously non-violent leader of the Indian independence movement, wrote a clear and concise plea for Hitler to avoid war, but it never reached its intended recipient because of an intervention by the British government. Just over a month later, the world looked on in horror as Germany invaded Poland. [Read More]