Haitian quake survivors used as 'slaves' in building of World Cup stadium in Brazil.

Haitian migrant workers are being worked into the ground building stadiums for the World Cup in Brazil, and the subcontractors that hired them don't pay them.

Congresscritter Cantor was defeated in the Republican primary by a tea party extremist.

This could cause Republicans to become even more bent on sabotaging the US government than they were last year.

Public pressure has made an oil company drop plans to drill in Virunga national park (where half the world's mountain gorillas live).

The UK threatens to deport a Tamil refugee back to Sri Lanka for the second time. The thugs raped and tortured him after his first deportation.

He says he will die rather than be sent back there again.

It is not an accident that the UK does this. The legal system has been designed to create excuses to reject refugees, and that systematically leads to results like these. If he comes to the point of killing himself, I hope he does it in a spectacular way that will shame the officials (both the British and the Sri Lankan) who will have driven him to it.

Correction: the Islamist fanatics that have conquered Mosul are not al Qa'ida. Their group, Isis, is even more cruel and vicious than al Qa'ida.