Under Putin, people in the Crimea that express support for Ukraine are jailed, fired, even exiled.

However, charges have been dropped against Svetlana Davydova, who informed Ukraine of evidence that Russian troops were invading Ukraine.

Due to the economic slowdown in China, and high investment in renewable energy, the world's CO₂ emissions did not increase in 2014. That is a step towards avoiding disaster.

It is not enough, however, because in 2013 we were already emitting much more CO₂ per year than the Earth's systems could dispose of. Thus, the CO₂ level in the atmosphere did increase in 2014, just as in 2013.

Ferguson protesters were arrested in their house by a SWAT team with guns pointed at them. They were suspected of shooting two thugs, simply because they ran away from the protest after the shots were fired.

I wonder: was the confiscated pistol legal? If so, why was it confiscated?

Spain's senate approved the law to impose big fines on protesters and ban publishing images of thugs.

The current low price of oil is because renewable energy and economic slowdown have slowed the expected increase in oil demand, resulting in a glut.

The low price is causing cancellation of many dangerous oil extraction projects. The article says that the low price will not increase consumption much. I hope that is true, but in general one would expect the demand to be somewhat elastic.