Striking platinum miners in South Africa have won a raise.

Global heating and overfishing threaten irreparable damage to the ocean.

Reportedly the Shabaab, Islamist terrorists in Somalia, get most of their funds from illegal timber made into charcoal.

This makes me wonder what part of the trade flow the Shabaab control. Is it the transport of charcoal into Somalia for sale there? Or some other part?

If it is the former, it would be easy for the US to wipe out their funding by selling cheap charcoal in Mogadishu.

Six (absurd) Flaws in the Case against Three Jailed al-Jazeera Journalists.

A more fundamental flaw is the idea that "endangering national security" by journalism is a crime.

Julian Assange's lawyers have two new grounds to challenge the warrant that orders him sent to Sweden for questioning.

We know the warrant is a phony pretext because the Swedish prosecutors are welcome to question Assange at any time; they need only visit him in the Ecuadorian embassy.