Casino Royale, the Ian Fleming novel that started the James Bond franchise, is the first 007 movie to star blond Brit actor Daniel Craig. The Observer's Tim Adams got a first look.

This column by NYT public editor Byron Calame is ostensibly about obtaining fair comment, but it also has an interesting vignette about the perils of relying on a database search.

Those Nazis had an ideal physique in mind. As part of achieving it, they had a project called "Lebensborn" or "Font of Life," designed to raise children who would meet that ideal. For the first time, the children of that project have met as adults.