Decrease of the human population growth rate has ceased in sub-Saharan Africa. The world's population threatens to grow to 11 billion by 2100.

I don't think it can reach that level — the consequences will cause global disaster before then, and many children will die. But that is a horrible way to limit the population.

Yet another NFL football player is charged with violence against a woman: he appears have tried to force his wife to have sex, then hit her and broke her nose. This together with manipulative threats.

Egypt's regime has made religion an arm of the state. Atheists have been threatened with arrest.

Mexican soldiers captured and then summarily shot 22 people, including members of a drug gang, and others who said they had been kidnaped by the gang.

Since the NSA hands over data about Palestinian-Americans' communications to Israel, and Israel uses such data to blackmail Palestinians in Palestine, it looks like the NSA is part of the blackmail system.