If police departments in the US had the same standards for employees as fire departments, we'd have police officers instead of thugs.

The US needs to reevaluate what their job consists of, and especially how many of them are needed. To hire as many as we have now requires scraping the bottom of the barrel. We no longer have a high overall crime rate, and if we ended the war on drugs, we'd have a lot less crime of all kinds.

China to Relocate Almost 1,000 Chemical Plants in Wake of Tianjin Blasts.

Modelling suggests that the Middle Easy will face an increasing water shortage for the next 25 years.

That doesn't mean it won't get worse after that.

Drought, related to global heating, provoked the civil war in Syria. Drought in other places can cause more wars.

The US is making "improvements" in nuclear weapons and seems not to consider what the effects will be when Russia makes similar "improvements" in its own nuclear weapons.

Britons in debt are collecting their state pensions in advance to pay the debt.

This will leave them destitute later, along with those who invested their pensions in pyramid schemes.