Half of the working women in the UK have been "sexually harassed", using the broadest conceivable definition of "harassed".

The article equates "harassment" with "unwanted behavior". That definition is too broad, because no one should be given the power to prohibit absolutely any treatment that person considers "unwanted". That is dictatorial power.

New pun: Scranton again.

UK MPs propose to ban plastic microbeads in cosmetics and toothpaste, because they harm water animals.

As Wikileaks posts leaks en masse, not selectively, they often contain private information including people's medical records that are of no political significance but can hurt people.

Wikileaks ought to make arrangements with the press to be selective about what it publishes, as it used to do. This way of handling the matter threatens to give all leaking a bad name.

The US Fish and Wildlife Service has a long backlog of species waiting years for an initial evaluation.

42 species have gone extinct waiting for protection.

I see the hand of business-dominated government at work.