Artificial ocean reefs, made of used tires, were intended to provide shelters for marine life. They backfired: the metal clips that held them together have rusted, loosing the tires to drift across the sea bottom, destroying life there.

Reportedly 100 Britons have gone to fight for the Peshmerga against PISSI.

Israeli schools have banned a book about a mixed-ethnicity couple.

Injection of oil and gas well wastewater is causing a lot of earthquakes in Oklahoma, and some of them are strong enough to do real damage.

China's new "snooper's charter" does not include the power to demand a backdoor. It stops at demanding companies decrypt messages on demand.

Even this may be impossible if it covers messages encrypted by the users with their own software.