Instagram is promoting a bubble of "clothing" designed only for getting photographed in. It is not durable enough to last for a few hours of wearing it.

In society's terms, this is pure waste. What we need is free software to edit a photo to create an image in which you appear to be wearing the clothing. That would eliminate the need to really make and ship the clothing.

An Indian elected official has been sentenced to life in prison for promoting the massacre of Sikhs in 1984.

This one exception illustrates how difficult it is to hold murderous Hindu extremists in India responsible for their acts.

10,000 students in Berlin participated in last Friday's strike for climate defense.

Some of Maduro's main supporters are meeting with Guaidó and his supporters.

Urging Venezuela to negotiate return to democracy.

"Venezuelans cry out for change — but they dread foreign intervention."

The Venezuelans quoted in the article do not say they want "change", pure and simple, regardless of details. They have specific ideas of what direction the change should go, and they don't agree about it.

The one who opposed Chávez 20 years ago is evidently right-wing, and wants a government that would run the country efficiently for the well-off. The former chavista wants a democratic government that would help the poor as Chávez did.

Now that we know Guaidó prearranged his claim with Pence, we have to expect he will do the former. I can't believe that Pence would want any other outcome.

Accusing a mercenary of doing black ops for apartheid-era South Africa and of intentionally inoculating blacks with HIV with genocidal intent.