Thugs in the Oklahoma City jail tortured prisoners by making them stand for hours, as well as other methods.

Playing the baby shark song probably won't cause the same physical pain and damage that standing for hours can cause. But if they play it too loud, it could damage the victim's hearing.

A summary of what is known about the Ethiopia-Tigray war.

Some questions that occur to me:

• Who is forbidding journalists from the front? Is it Ethiopia? If so, how come Tigray doesn't help them get in? Does Tigray also want to exclude them? Is Ethiopia blockading Tigray?
• Likewise, what stops humanitarian relief from reaching Tigray?
• If Ethiopia is blockading Tigray, how is it maintaining the blockade against Tigray's forces, which are defeating Ethiopia's forces in Amhara?
• How come Tigray has no radio communications with the outside world?
• Why is Ethiopia so weak, militarily?

Bogus Johnson will avoid the issue of the gift holiday he got from a rich Tory by not officially declaring it.

Macron’s ex-bodyguard got a light sentence (no prison time) for attacking protesters.

Italy seems to have adopted a law that bans advertisements on the street that "perpetuate gender stereotypes". That is extremely broad censorship, since an ad need not disparage or insult anyone to be banned. It is enough for it to show men and/or women behaving in a customary way. Showing a party where women wear dresses and men wear suits would be forbidden. Any scene in which people are acting in accord with usual Italian sex roles is forbidden. Advertising a romcom, or a James Bond movie, is almost impossible.