The UK right-wing Conservative party and centrist Labour party both rejected a demand from MDs to fund the National Health Service properly.

That would require taxing the rich and their businesses, and these parties have both surrendered to them.

Park Yeon-mi, who escaped from North Korea, now faces efforts to kill or discredit her.

The FCC's form of network neutrality has a big flaw: it encourages ISPs to punish their customers for the copyright industry.

Surprisingly many Fukishima children are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer, but it is not yet clear whether this is due to examining them for that disease with special care.

There should be a similar project to examine Japanese children of the same age from comparable district far away from Fukushima. It would provide a control group.

Poor people in Britain impoverished by the "bedroom tax" have in many cases become ill.