Owners of old ships frequently abandon them, with their cargos and crews. The crews may be trapped, unable to leave the ship. Once in a rare while, the ship's cargo eventually explodes.

I will make a radical proposal: require ship owners to post a sufficient bond with an international organization, in case the ship can't pay its fees or becomes abandoned. Without that bond, the ship should not be allowed to leave port, and any country can seize it and sell or scrap it.

Contending that privatization of public services (including medical care), which was done in the name of saving money, has made Australia's encounter with Covid-19 far more painful and far more expensive.

Alexei Navalny, Russian opposition leader, is mysteriously sick. His associates say he was poisoned.

The US financial and business system knows only how to export jobs.

In many fields, all expertise has been lost, so it is nearly impossible to start a plant to make anything.

*Fashion's dirty secret: how sexual assault took hold in jeans factories.*