Bacterial infections are becoming ever more dangerous due to antibiotic resistance, which spreads further every year. In a few decades we will be back where we were in 1940, when there wasn't much to help people fight fight off an infection in a wound.

The article proposes "more incentives" to develop new antibiotics. I fear that means "more patent power, as well as subsidies." If we aren't careful, that will result in antibiotics that are too expensive for most people to use.

Let's learn a lesson from the other drugs that are so expensive people die for lack of money. Let's fund more research on antibiotics, and exclude them from the patent system.

The US is suing to block the merger of Penguin with Simon & Schuster.

Finally, the US government treats big mergers the way it should never have stopped treating them.

A woman died in Poland as a result of being denied an abortion. This has provoked protests.

This was a special case — a late-stage abortion which most European countries would permit on grounds of medical necessity.

The everyday issue of abortion rights concerns the rights of women who simply don't want to have a baby.

Yahoo has ceased doing business in China rather than obey China's strict state surveillance laws.

When it is impossible for a US company to operate justly in another country, it should do as Yahoo just did, and cease operating there.

* UK, US and China among countries representing two-thirds of global economy to agree to push green energy and cars.* They plan to make many technologies cheaper and make them available to the whole world, starting with clean electricity, electric vehicles, green steel, elecrolytic hydrogen and sustainable farming.

This won't make the global heating problem fix itself — we will still need to end deforestation, and fund quick adoption of these new solutions. That will require a lot of investment in poor countries.