Cracking Qaddafi’s safe

The Central Bank of Libya is holding $184 million of gold and silver coins bearing the face of the late Col. Qaddafi in a 48-year-old British-made vault which they can’t get open. A rival government has the code. Khaled, a safecracker, has been hired to help but...

When is a rock?

The tiny (110 acre) outpost of Itu Aba in the Spratly archipelago of the South China Sea is claimed by Taiwan to be an island; the Philippines claim it’s a rock. Island status comes with a 200 mile exclusion zone but, if a rock, only 12 miles. Or is it just a...