A study measured temperatures for the past 11,000 years, since the end of the last ice age. It has never been as hot as it is now.

How the UK told Qadhafi where to find exiled dissidents so he could kidnap them.

The Syrian Kurds in Afrin have asked Assad to defend them from Turkey. Erdoğan warned Assad that Turkey would attack Assad. And Assad's Russian backers, too?

It is very strange for a breakaway part of Syria to ally in effect with Syria (and thus maybe Russia). Even stranger to ally with Syria and the US at the same time. I don't know what to make of this.

Australia has laws for protection of endangered species, but usually it only goes through the motions of trying, or not even that.

Campaigning for the International Criminal Court to investigate US war crimes in Afghanistan, and target the highest leaders responsible — starting with Dubya.