Some Chinese human righs lawyers seems to have cracked and "confessed" after being held in prison incommunicado for a year.

Using sports stars to sell sugar water: not good for people's health.

For inhabitants of the Rio shantytown of Complexo do Alemão, the Olympic games mean repression by special units of thugs.

The infrastructure constructed for the Olympics is falling apart, apparently badly built.

"Two recent reports on the state of the world’s coral reefs appear to contradict each other. But which is right?"

They don't exactly contradict each other, and the lesson from these two studies is simple enough. To avoid an ecological catastrophe, we must quickly curb global heating and protect reefs from local threats.

Alas, politicians that don't have the courage to do this will invent many excuses for failure.

US soldiers that fled the occupation of Iraq are asking Canada for definitive asylum.

Let no one accuse them of cowardice for refusing to join in an evil act.