Operation Satanique: How France’s Rainbow Warrior Attack Blew Up in Its Face

France sent elite secret agents halfway around the world to silence a protest ship. Instead, they killed a photographer, exposed their own spies and handed Greenpeace its greatest publicity victory.

It was intended to be a discreet act of sabotage. Instead, the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior became one of the most spectacular intelligence own goals of the Cold War.

Sam Neill: The Unassuming Star Who Became One of Cinema's Most Enduring Faces

For more than five decades, Sam Neill established himself as one of the most respected and versatile actors of his generation, building a career that ranged from acclaimed arthouse dramas to some of Hollywood's biggest blockbusters while remaining unmistakably grounded in his New Zealand roots.

Born Nigel John Dermot Neill on September 14, 1947, in Omagh, Northern Ireland, he moved to New Zealand as a child, where he would develop both his acting career and the wry, understated persona that audiences around the world came to admire.

Beware: Alibaba and the Forty Million Thieves

 

The modern version of that famous Arabic folk tale could well be "Ali Baba and the Forty Million Thieves".

Haggling in a dank, shadowy bazaar in Cairo, Istanbul or Casablanca, remonstrating with the persistent merchants has its contemporary equivalent, and I'm thinking that the ubiquitous online bazaar, Alibaba or its equally dubious sibling, AliExpress, is exactly that.