A lawyer argues in a Florida court that a fetus is the victim of "unlawful and illegal detention" because the pregnant mother-to-be is in jail.

I think the lawyer aims to demonstrate that it is absurd to treat a fetus as a person.

To continue the absurdity, the same argument could be applied to confining a fetus to a single womb.

A US court ruled that the relatives of people killed by the September 2001 terrorist attacks cannot take the funds that were seized from the Bank of Afghanistan. Those funds belong to the Afghan people.

The revisions in Roald Dahl's books go much further than removing insults. They seem to try to impose new taboos on some words and some ideas.

Cambridge University students voted in favor of making all eateries on campus vegan.

They did not request more support for vegan students. On the contrary, the request is to make it difficult for other students not to be vegan.

A test of a 4-day work week in the UK: out of 61 companies that tried it, 56 decided to continue it.