Indian thugs raped a woman who would not pay a bribe.

The bribe was supposed to be to get her husband, also a thug, out of jail. The article doesn't say why he was in jail, or whether they wanted the bribe to follow the law or to break it.

The UK's "terrorism" trial will be held only partly in secret.

Aside from the question of whether those two men are guilty as charged, there is the even more important question of what the supposed crime consists of, and whether than ought to be a crime at all.

The Australian "social services minister", whose aim is to abolish social services as far as possible, says that welfare support for the poor denies people the opportunity to learn to be "virtuous".

However, it's the opposite. Contemptuous policies like his tend, in the long term, to teach values of contempt for others.

For the short term, many Australians remain virtuous, and demonstrate this by protesting in their thousands against these plans.

90% of lemur species are threatened with extinction, mostly because humans have cut down most of the forests where they live.

Paid spies infiltrated the protesters opposing the proposed Maules Creek coal mine in Australia, and told thugs how to sabotage every protest plan.