A lot more detail about the trial and conviction of Cecily McMillan.

It appears that the jurors voted to convict her because the video did not seem to support her statements of what happened. Reportedly it might not be clear enough to show what happened.

Economics students around the world have condemned the way economics is taught, focusing on the easily falsified neoclassical approach to the subject.

The Ukrainian army is fighting rebels around Slavyansk. The rebels have heavy weapons including mortars and armored vehicles.

Are these the armored vehicles that were taken away from the Ukrainian army a couple of weeks ago, or are they different ones?

Reporters interviewed one rebel militia unit and found only Ukrainians who favored Russia, no representatives of the Russian government. Also no mortars or armored vehicles.

Ukrainians, and not those living just near the Russian border, should be afraid of IMF shock treatment. But you'd have to be nuts to prefer Putin's dictatorship.

Global heating, pushing up sea level, has already drowned one atoll in the Pacific. The inhabitants of other atolls wonder, who's next?

Introduced small snakes are destroying the wildlife of Gran Canaria, where they have no predators.