Many countries feed more antibiotics to healthy animals than the humans use. This provokes antibiotic resistance in the bacteria that inhabit the animals,which spreads to bacteria that can infect humans.

Syrian rebels evacuated the city of Homs, under cease fire.

UK right-wing policies of dooH niboR are spreading hunger.

Now that feminism has revived, it can do a lot of good, but also threatens censorship .

I support feminism except when it starts to attack freedom of speech. Calling someone a "slut" is nasty, and foolish as well: it presumes a prudish sexist idea of good and bad sexual conduct. Let's rebuke anyone who calls anyone a "slut" — we could call then "Taliban" — but people have a right to say nasty, prudish, sexist things.

No matter how nasty a statement is, censorship is nastier.

South Korea is becoming repressive: a union leader who sought refuge in a Buddhist temple has been arrested .