The Tory "reform" of welfare payments in the UK tends to make recipients fall behind on rent. Now many landlords won't rent to welfare recipients at all.

Six crimes by the bully and his officials that ought to be prosecuted.

Israel confiscates Palestinians' water pipes and tanks so its colonies can grow bananas.

Save Israel, Stop the Occupation — an organization that asks Jews outside Israel to support Israeli opposition to continued occupation of Palestine.

The falling price of renewable electricity and batteries may enable India to provide electricity to everyone using renewable energy instead of coal.

India should decide now to reject coal. It will do little good for millions of poor Indians if they get electricity in the next 20 years, only to die from global heating effects in another 20 years.

In the long term, for India to reduce the number of poor people it must stop making more of them by means of birth control. Without that, it's a Red Queen's race.