The French parliament voted to give free software (logiciel libre) priority in higher education.

"Priority" is a rather weak preference; it is too easy to justify making an exception. Also, this doesn't apply to primary and secondary schools. However, it is a good step forward.

A Saudi princess living in the US has been charged with keeping a Kenyan woman as a domestic slave.

Mexican prisoners (who say they were forced to sign blank confessions) are being treated horribly in a new US-funded private prison.

"Pro-life" Republicans want US children to go hungry.

They value "human" life only before a human is born.

The Egyptian military have called for arrest of more leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, meanwhile imposing a plan to amend rather than replace the constitution that it imposed.