15 March 2007: Afternoon

U.N. agrees on new sanctions for Iran, the Security Council will discuss the recommendations today.

A blood-sucking insect that looks like a striped cockroach, [it] can feed over years on tissues of the heart and gastrointestinal tract. Donor centers have a new, parasitic foe.

Our coverage of South by Southwest continues with Sarah Hepola's look back at everything that happened at this year's music festival--before it starts.

"Planetary physician" posits Europe is doomed to a global-warmed future as a desert wasteland.

NFL players' wives wonder if their husbands' early-onset dementia could have been triggered by head injuries on the field.

"Last month, I saw it in a hotel in New York and in three magazines, and I just found out my friend's mum has papered her downstairs loo with it." The ubiquity of trends means it's time to change the wallpaper.

In today's Tournament of Books match, Colin Meloy chooses between Ford and Chatterjee and high-fives a dwarf.

For many chefs, eggs are all the rage; for Wylie Dufresne, so is an immersion circulator and some tomato powder.