Sri Lanka's parliament will meet to decide who is Prime Minister.

That resolves the immediate constitutional crisis, but the prospect of giving power back to the murdering and torturing Rajapaksa is still present.

Fracking in the UK is running into trouble with standards for how big an earthquake it is permitted to cause.

Naturally, the frackers respond by saying, "Relax the standards." I expect the Tories will do that sooner or later, since the planet roasters are one of their principal sponsors.

The vital reasons to ban fracking are the danger of contaminating water supplies and, above all, the contribution to global heating. All extreme fossil fuels need to be protected from extraction, and most of the rest: in all, 80% of known reserves must be left in the ground.

The Australian government says it will remove all children (does that mean all minors?) from prison in Nauru by the end of the year, along with their families.

The children will not be allowed to stay in Australia, so where will they go? Will Australia drop them in another island tyranny?

The adult prisoners are also being driven mad by their conditions.

"Spate of caravans [from Central America] doesn't mean that more people are migrating [to the US] — they are just doing so in a more visible manner."

Former Maldives President Nasheed has returned from exile.