The Onion: An Israeli soldier recounted Tuesday his harrowing, heroic war story of killing an 8-month-old Palestinian child during a violent attack against protesters.

Ebola has spread to a big city in the DR Congo, from which it might spread all around the world.

The bully recently cut funds for emergency funds to deal with such outbreaks. This is like cutting funds to the fire department; it is crazy. Slowness in the response will let Ebola spread further.

An experimental vaccine is being tested there.

Israeli soldiers shot Canadian doctor Tarek Loubani as he was treating protesters wounded by Israeli soldiers. Israeli soldiers shot many other medics, killing one. Since the army says that it "knows where every shot went", it cannot plead that this was unintentional. Loubani gives reasons to conclude he must have been targeted intentionally.

A few years ago, Loubani was imprisoned in Egypt for months for being in the wrong place at the wrong time when the coup occurred. He was freed due to an international pressure campaign.

The UK's new highly competitive graduation tests discourage all students, even the best.

I suspect that rich parents have made a way for their children to bypass these tests. Is that so?

The UK is subjecting Julian Assange to conditions both oppressive and dangerous to his health, and Ecuador's new president seems to be quietly making them even worse.