The UK made a secret agreement about dealing with the nuclear waste from its absurdly expensive planned new nuclear power plant.

India asked YouTube and Facebook to take down a satirical video that mocks two Indian celebrities.

In the US, poor and middle-class families' incomes dropped (on the average) from 1999 to 2014.

In addition, the middle class shrank, with a few of the departing families becoming wealthy and most of them becoming poor.

The study analyzed the 229 metropolitan areas for which data were available, and perforce omitted 152 other areas for which it wasn't.

Here's the full report.

The "transparency, monitoring and control" minister of Brazil has quit after a leaked recording tied him to plotting to end the "lava jato" corruption investigation.

The whole point of the legal coup, as we now know, was to end that investigation and protect the extremely corrupt officials who plotted it.

Azeri journalist Khadija Ismayilova, freed from 18 months as a political prisoner, will resume investigating government corruption.