Canada This article is more than 6 months old‘We’re all afraid of bears’: judge fines Canadian man for shooting animalThis article is more than 6 months oldThe judge rejected Serge Paincahud’s ‘scared’ defense to fire at a black bear while illegally carrying a shotgun on a trail A Canadian man, who had pleaded guilty to shooting a black bear in a national park, will pay a fine of C$7,500 after the judge rejected his “fear” of the predator as justification for bringing a loaded firearm on a popular hiking trail.

The G2 interviewWillem DafoeInterviewWillem Dafoe: 'Don't make this into a crackpot profile, please'Stuart JeffriesThe actor famous for being game for anything talks about his passion for physical theatre, his attraction to strong directors – but declines to comment on the size of his penisWhen Willem Dafoe was a little boy in Appleton, Wisconsin, he shut himself in a closet for two days. Nobody missed him. "It was a big family. My dad was a surgeon, my mom a nurse, and they were always out working.

RereadingPhilosophy booksIn his 1976 classic, William Gass indulges his obsession with lists – blue jeans, blue stockings, blue movies. It's a 'delicious' book about melancholia and sex, argues Brian DillonWilliam H Gass is a lover of lists. So playful, odd and long are these litanies that in his essays and fiction Gass rivals the great inventory-mongers – Rabelais, Joyce, Perec – for sheer pleasure taken in setting one damn thing down after another. In an essay from 2002 entitled "

Art theft This article is more than 6 years old'Spider-Man' art thief jailed over Paris heistThis article is more than 6 years oldVjeran Tomic and two others sentenced and fined for stealing five 20th-century masterpieces from Musée d’Art Moderne A burglar known as Spider-Man has been jailed in Paris for eight years after one of the most daring art heists in recent years. Vjeran Tomic and two accomplices were also fined €104m (£88.

ShortcutsX#Susanalbumparty: Top five Twitter hashtag PR disastersFollowing the most recent addition to the Twitter hashtag wall of shame – here's a roundup of the best and add your ownSusan Boyle's PR people are probably wishing they had re-read their promotional hashtag after missing its alternative message to Twitter users. Causing great mirth on the social network on Thursday, the unfortunate choice of hashtag #Susanalbumparty to promote the singer's new album event has spawned a wealth of mock invites to the party and ridicule.