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Security in Norway Terrorism strikes Scandinavia Jul 22nd 2011, 17:56 by C.M. | COPENHAGEN A POWERFUL bomb explosion ripped through central Oslo on the afternoon of July 22nd, in the most devastating attack on a Scandinavian country since the second world war. Centred on the heart of Norway’s political apparatus, it killed at least seven people, injured many more, and shattered windows in off..

The Norway attacks Manifesto of a murderer Jul 24th 2011, 8:54 by C.M. | COPENHAGEN EVER since Anders Behring Breivik fired the opening volley of the shooting spree that took the lives of at least 85 youngsters on the small Norwegian island of Utøya on Friday, every few hours has brought some new shock. The latest revelation is that the 32-year-old Norwegian appears to have spent nine years p..

Japan and sex Waltzing into bedrooms and brothels A new book on love and the law in Japan Jun 2nd 2011 | from the print edition Lovesick Japan: Sex, Marriage, Romance, Law. By Mark West. Cornell University Press; 259 pages; $29.95 and £19.95. Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk ON FEBRUARY 19th 2006 Kimiko and her married lover Tetsuo checked into an Osaka love-hotel, swallowed sedatives and sl..

Thirty years of a disease The end of AIDS? Thirty years on, it looks as though the plague can now be beaten, if the world has the will to do so Jun 2nd 2011 | from the print edition ON JUNE 5th 1981 America’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention reported the outbreak of an unusual form of pneumonia in Los Angeles. When, a few weeks later, its scientists noticed a similar cluster of a ra..

Alternative medicine Think yourself better Alternative medical treatments rarely work. But the placebo effect they induce sometimes does May 19th 2011 | from the print edition ON MAY 29th Edzard Ernst, the world’s first professor of complementary medicine, will step down after 18 years in his post at the Peninsula Medical School, in south-west England. Despite his job title (and the initial h..

The arrest of Dominique Strauss-Kahn No he Kahn’t (updated) May 16th 2011, 17:49 by S.P. and Z.B. | PARIS and WASHINGTON, DC EVERYTHING was in place to enable Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the IMF head, to declare next month his candidacy for the Socialist primary, ahead of French presidential elections next year. Polls consistently showed that he was the most popular Socialist candidate, and the b..

India and Pakistan The world's most dangerous border To reduce the risk of terror, the West must help defuse tension between India and Pakistan May 19th 2011 | from the print edition THE late Richard Holbrooke, the Obama administration’s envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan, had many virtues as a diplomat, but tact was not among them. His description of his theatre of operations as “AfPak” i..

Barack Obama's speech on the Middle East 1967 and all that May 19th 2011, 19:57 by D.L. | JERUSALEM BARACK OBAMA has spelled out his prescription for the partition of Palestine. "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines," he says, "with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognised borders are established for both states." That is not a departure from long-es..

Group rights v individual rights Me, myself and them From indigenous peoples to newly installed migrants, governments face awkward demands for collective exemptions and entitlements May 12th 2011 | from the print edition WHEN one category of citizens is singled out for privileged treatment, are the rights of others infringed? Phil Eidsvik, a Canadian salmon-fisher, thinks the answer is yes. He ..

Pakistan and China Sweet as can be? Even an all-weather friendship has limits May 12th 2011 | BEIJING AND ISLAMABAD | from the print edition Come rain or shine PAKISTAN’S ambassador to Beijing, Masood Kahn, was this week fully armed with metaphors to describe the robust friendship between the two countries. “We say it is higher than the mountains, deeper than the oceans, stronger than steel..