Dutch puzzle designer Oskar van Deventer debuted his latest puzzle at the New York Puzzle Party Symposium held at the special Chinese Puzzles exhibit visiting the Museum of Chinese in America. Demonstrating his Over the Top puzzle to a packed house of puzzle enthusiasts, van Deventer has achieved an unofficial world record with this 17 x 17 x 17 twisty mechanical puzzle, which was 3-D–printed at Shapeways.com, the same company that created the rings for the Ring of Dishonor. Consisting of 1,539 individual flexible plastic pieces, this 5.5-inch cube makes the mass-market Rubik’s Cube look like ...

Al-Qaeda’s nuclear arms dealer? The top recruiter for the Pakistani Taliban? A terrorist “mastermind?” These are just some of the explanations that have been picked up by the Pakistani press ever since Raymond Davis, an employee of the U.S. embassy in Pakistan, shot two Pakistani men he claimed were menacing him on the streets of Lahore.

The nature of Davis’ work — now acknowledged to be on contract for the CIA — and the prolonged vacuum of information regarding it has invited in a host of outlandish theories to fill the void.

Early on in the Davis affair, The European Union Times, an online...