Today on the Hotplate

"Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us." - Georges Bataille

• Renowned gay art exhibit prompts police investigation
• Deal struck in auto parts strike
• Alaska files environmental complaint against Greenpeace
• Dial C for (Attempted) Murder
• Gangster nabbed after 50 cases of murder, rape
• Court Rules Boy's Violent Poetry Not Criminal
• Murders for black magic
• 15 Uzbeks On Trial for Terrorism, Treason
• Saddam's Prison routine: Plants and poetry
• French GM protesters wreck corn field
• Poetry good for the heart
• Organ scandal baby remains buried
• Controversial opera opens at Wagner festival without boos
• Big rise in pirate murders
• 'We thought we were the centre of the world'
• The Living Theatre takes its act of protest everywhere it goes
• Firefighters Speak Out About 'Porn Star Ball' Scandal
• Beaverbrook art dispute to be settled through arbitration