Due to global heating, beetles have killed 66 million pine trees in California. These dead trees, together with drought and heat, could lead to giant wildfires.

The House of Representatives rejected an attack on the "lifeline" program that enables poor people to have telephones.

"An organisation that judges women on how attractive they are to men has publicly humiliated its own winner for going on a TV show all about being attractive to men."

The Pakistani Taliban assassinated a prized Sufi singer. They are intolerant of any version of Islam that isn't cruel and hard.

The Global Commission on Internet Governance report includes many admirable principles.

However, it fails to include two principles that are necessary for a freedom-respecting internet:

Users must have control over the software that does their computing (it is free software).

Systems must collect the minimum possible data about users.