The population of barn owls in the UK is crashing because of various human activities.

Use of rat poison is one of them. Another is global heating, which paradoxically makes Britain colder in the winter.

Australia's gun regulations could be a model for the US.

A US drone attack killed 15 people on the way to a wedding in Yemen.

This is a consequence of using drones as death squads, in places that are not battlefields. A wedding party would not travel through a battlefield; people would recognize the danger and stay under cover.

Freedom of political speech is widely threatened across Europe.

For instance, Spain is now considering a law to make it a crime to "insult Spain".

This is not to mention the censorship of specific views in many countries.

Karzai's conditions to allow some US troops to remain in Afghanistan: end air attacks (including drones) and facilitate peace.