Australian officials illegally bugged East Timor's negotiating team for a treaty that covered dividing oil resources. A whistleblower revealed this. The culpable officials are not on trial; the whistleblower and per lawyer are.

Meanwhile, the state is suppressing the whistleblower's name. Is it really secret? Has perse been disappeared? Are per relatives friends threatened with prosecution if they tell anyone what happened to so-and-so? Do they have to pretend that so-and-so became a hermit?

Has anyone published who Witness K is?

Is this secrecy supposedly for the benefit of Witness K? If so, does it really provide any benefit to per? Does perse want to keep per name secret, or is it being done to hurt per. Or is perse being bullied into cooperating with the secrecy?

10,000 students and others protested in Bangkok for a change in the country's government.

The Thai generals overthrew democracy several times, and eventually imposed a new constitution.

*Experts and volunteers scramble to save Mauritius's wildlife after oil spill.*

As economic growth becomes increasingly unsustainable, it also provides ever less benefit to most of the people in the developed world.

Afghan women are pressing to preserve some rights under peace with the Taliban.