Noel Martin, who was paralysed in an attack 12 years ago, plans to commit suicide with the help of the Swiss clinic Dignitas. Here, broadcaster Liz Carr appeals in an open letter to Noel, for him to think again about talking his life.

Three hundred British troops have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in seven years - a death toll film-maker Morgan Matthews set out to honour in a three-hour programme to be broadcast on BBC Two. What drove him to make such a harrowing documentary?

Preserving tropical forests is the cheapest way of combating climate change - so why aren't we doing it?

The conflict in Georgia has awoken fears of a new Cold War between Russia and its allies and the West, nearly 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. But will the animosity come back to haunt Western imaginations as it once did?

It's 2008 and sex seems to be everywhere. So who holds the line between permissiveness and obscenity? What is obscene these days? And how do those people entrusted to make these calls cope with the harrowing work?

Big game hunting hasn't died out with fears for endangered species, it's just moved to private game reserves. Louis Theroux went to South Africa to try to understand the thrill of paying to kill an animal.

A look at what's making the headlines in Wednesday's morning newspapers.

The age of electronic communication has allowed a hammer blow against privacy, Clive James writes, but even the last bastion, the humble letter, is under threat.

Time is running out for advertisers who are a lighter shade of green, as eco-cliches fall out of fashion.

A surgical gown with incision marks is designed to boost medical students' empathy for their patients.

Amber Rahim Shamsi in Lahore looks at how Pakistani students are responding to emergency rule.

Gordon Brown orders spot checks on all government departments to ensure data is safe after the loss of 25m child benefit records.

Graphic tv advertisements aimed at shocking people out of dangerous driving are under review.

A look at what is making the headlines in Monday's morning newspapers.

A new Australian safety campaign aims to reduce road deaths by questioning the manhood of speeding drivers.

The net acts more and more as an outlet for grieving in developed societies but not all its limitations are obvious.

The bestseller lists are full of memoirs about miserable childhoods and anguished families. Waterstone's even has a "Painful Lives" shelf. Why are authors confessing their hurt so freely and do readers find morbid enjoyment in them?

The BBC's Laura Smith-Spark finds an air of unreality in Blacksburg after the shooting of 33 people.

Horror film fans made up to look like an army of the undead stalk the streets of Brisbane in an annual fun event.

Climate change dominates the agenda now, but what happened to the green cause celebres of the 1970s, 80s and 90s - acid rain, the ozone layer, saving the panda and nuclear power?