China is putting former Hong Kong newspaper publisher Jimmy Lai on trial for supporting democracy (they describe it in different terms). After he is convicted, he will probably spend the rest of his life in prison.

China would probably claim those statements are false -- that it is "Hong Kong's" courts, not China's, that the charges are undermining order and national security, Those are typical lies of repressive tyrannies such as China.

(satire) *Toyota Reveals That Any Babies Conceived In Backseats Of Their Cars Belong To Them Now.*

In the decade after 2010, many countries experienced leaderless horizontal protests,- some of them very large. But hardly any gained anything for democracy or justice, or whatever causes had motivated the protests.

Some were co-opted by right-wing forces that were organized. Others suffered from having no leaders that could negotiate to accept concessions from the state.

President Rousseff of Brazil, a leftist who had been tortured by the same military thugs that were bashing mass protesters in Sao Paulo, watched the protests on TV trying to figure out what the protesters wanted -- so she could do that for them. But there was no answer to be had, because they were not organized enough to have agreed on anything specific. She could only guess.

The article explains how organized right-wing extremists put the blame on her, and that eventually led to making Bolsonaro president.

High levels of particulate air pollution significantly increases the danger of getting type 2 diabetes. The pollution of Delhi may more than double that probability.

Hot weather has made a normally harmless Pasteurella species start killing elephants in Africa, and antelopes in central Asia.It was never observed to cause disease before.

It could happen to other species of mammals, including perhaps our own.