The UK's budget cuts have come back as tremendous damage.

Evidence that the key to success is dealing in a useful way with failure .

Between US air strikes and PISSI's explosive booby traps, Ramadi is now mostly a ruin .

That's better than what it was a month ago, a stronghold of barbarity. I expect that the civilian survivors will say so. Helping them get their voice out, to show young Muslims what a monster PISSI is, will help them resist radicalization.

A six-month truce between Assad and rebels is holding in parts of Syria.

In London, squatters occupied the former mint site to protest against homelessness.