The EU demands that the US stop spying massively if it wants US companies to hold data on business in Europe.

This not strong enough, however.

Berlusconi has been ousted from the Italian senate because of his criminal convictions.

Belgium is on track to approve voluntary euthanasia with no age limit.

I am in favor of this. The safeguards must be quite careful so that children are not pressured into a decision they are not sure they want.

If we can allow minors the choice of dying, it is ridiculous to deny them the far less drastic choice of having sex. That too should be permitted, with suitable safeguards; for instance, that the minor would declare in advance an intention to start having sex.

The Supreme Court plans to consider a case in which a company's owners claim that paying for health care that covers birth control violates their religious freedom.

I fear that this Supreme Court will rule for that company. It has granted companies absurd "human" rights on other questions.

A road planned to go through a rainforest in Sumatra, for coal export, could wipe out many endangered species.