In Australia, everyone will feel the pain of the new budget, but it falls mostly on the poor.

China is arresting dissidents because the 25th anniversary of the massacre of students at Tiananmen Square is approaching.

Tax data confirm UK economic growth benefits only the top 1%.

This is what the plutocrats' economists call a "recovery" which is why economics students rebel against that sort of economics.

A study finds that heavy users of mobile phones are 3 times as likely to get brain cancer as other people.

Whether this is important depends on how frequent these types of brain cancer normally are. If the phone changes a .01% chance into a .03% chance, neither one is really worth worrying about.

Miami thugs shot and killed two criminal suspects, sitting in a car, who had their hands up and were trying to surrender.

Since one had perhaps committed robbery with a gun, it was legitimate to treat them as probably armed and dangerous. That doesn't excuse using them as shooting gallery targets.