Companies that write phony scientific papers for a fee have infiltrated the editorial boards of "real" academic papers. That led to 10,000 articles retracted last year.

The asylum seekers in the UK, given housing only on a remote barge, are living in terrible conditions and say it is like a prison.

MPs told ministers, "We were disheartened to see some of the living conditions on the Bibby Stockholm, with many individuals having to share small, cramped cabins [originally designed for one person], often with people [up to six] they do not know [some of whom spoke a different language to them]."

One said told a reporter tat "We are concerned that housing asylum claimants on Bibby Stockholm is leaving them in a claustrophobic environment, isolated from external support, including legal advice, and without important links to community, faith or family, potentially for months on end."

Israel's siege and bombardment has made most Palestinians in Gaza want to flee to Egypt.

That is what Israel wants -- to depopulate Gaza of Palestinians. And the cruelty of its treatment of them seems designed to pressure them to run.

To enable Israel to succeed in terrorizing Palestinians into fleeing is not a just outcome. Israel should stop its reign of terror, and the US should make sure that it does.

Gauging that the US approval of Bitcoin ETFs (exchange-traded funds) without trustworthy regulation makes them sucker bait.

I certainly will not but into them. I don't want to speculate; I want safe investments that don't require being watched with an eagle-eye every day or second-guessing everyone else.

British school inspectors used unreliable portable computers to take notes when they interviewed school the personnel. A visit to a school could last for some time, and if the computer crashed during a visit, the notes already entered were lost and the inspector had to reenter them from memory. Careers could be wiped out because of the unreliability of reentering them.

Why did the people managing this believe that was acceptable?