The Iraqi Kurds recaptured the Mosul dam, with US air support.

A US woman accused in Indonesia of murdering her mother says that thugs are beating her and threatening to deny her water unless she confesses.

I have no opinion about whether she is guilty of those charges. There may be valid reasons to prosecute her, but suspects should not be tortured.

A desperate woman in Ireland was forced to have a cesarean section, when she threatened to starve herself after being denied an abortion.

She was pregnant because of a rape committed before she reached Ireland.

Abortion is a basic right.

A Jewish Israeli woman converted to Islam and is marrying an Arab. This has brought out various sorts of racists.

I find it hard to imagine a greater folly than for a woman to convert to Islam. But she has a right to do it, and a right to get married.

Australian PM Abbott's plan to stop promoting renewable energy would amount to a 10 billion dollar gift to the fossil fuel companies he serves. And without even achieving the promised insignificant side benefit of a reduction in electricity prices.