Palm Oil Is Wiping out Orangutans — Despite Multinationals’ Promises.

Teenager Who Killed Husband after He Raped Her Is Sentenced to Death in Sudan. She had been coerced into marrying him.

There are women in the US who have been sentenced to life in prison for similar acts.

I expect that Sudanese law defines "rape" to exclude rape by the husband. That's comparable to US laws that define "rape" to include voluntary sex with under N years of age (where N varies). Both laws falsify the meaning of "rape".

The UK has apologized for its "appalling treatment" of exiled Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj.

This was what he demanded in his lawsuit.

I hope the UK will compensate him for the torture that it enabled Gadhafi to inflict on him.

Stop thinking that rising house prices are a good thing.

Two optical quasi-monopolies, one for lenses and one for frames, are about to merge.

We should not allow any market to be so concentrated.