The UK will test a system that uses photos of drivers of passing cars to detect those who are not wearing seat belts, or are holding phones in their hands.

Detecting the use of a snoop-phone while driving is a good thing, in itself, because that practice is dangerous. But I wonder what else these photos could (and will) be used for. Will the state use them to identify every driver by facial recognition? And ever passenger, too?

There should be technical safeguards in the system to ensure it can't be used for this

Australia's coral is not out of the woods yet.

Global heating will eventually kill the Great Barrier Reef, and the acidification caused by too much CO2 in the water will eventually wipe out most sea animals with shells — including coral.

A woman is suing the only pharmacy within 50 miles of her home for refusing to fill a prescription for contraception (the morning-after pill).

Such situations are likely to arise in the depopulated rural parts of the US, where stores of any kind are few and far between, and anti-abortion fanatics are numerous.

I am suspicious of any pharmacy business that gives its individual staff the privilege to veto a prescription. No supermarket would tolerate a sales clerk who refused to sell certain products — if you won't do the whole job, you would need to find some other job. I suspect that the owners or managers of those pharmacies are themselves anti-abortion fanatics, and that letting staff veto prescriptions is a intentional deniable way of attacking abortion and birth contraception while denying their responsibility in the matter.

It's clear that any pharmacy, when open for business, must be legally required to fill any valid prescription presented by anyone.

President Wickremesinghe has sent Sri Lanka's thugs to use cruelty to crush the protest movement that drove out President Rajapaksa.

Everyone: call on Columbia Sportswear to commit to ending use of PFAs in its products.