A doctor will be prosecuted in Egypt for carrying out female genital mutilation.

While China approaches 10,000 miles of bullet train lines, the US builds expensive advanced weapons (trains of bullets).

I rode the Chinese high speed rail from Beijing to Hangzhou; it took just 6 hours. I'm sure lots of air miles are being avoided. The nasty thing is that passengers are required to identify themselves, but the US is becoming ever more like China in that regard.

Confronting the prejudice against abortion.

Landmark sites in the US threatened by rising sea levels.

The Thai army has converted martial law into a coup.