The UK provides great subsidies for fossil fuel use but much less for renewable energy.

The US has the same harmful policy. I suppose that in both cases it is because the fossil fuel companies have purchased more political power than the renewable energy companies. In other words, it's a reflection of the fact that we have democracy in form, but plutocracy in substance.

The one firefighter who was not killed along with the rest of his group, because he was doing a job elsewhere at the time, reports feeling guilt that he was not with them, and is looking for some sort of "reason" why he survived.

This is a common pattern of irrationality among those who have the good fortune to escape a calamity. There was probably no "reason", only chance; and he has nothing to feel guilty about. If he had been there with them, he'd be dead too. One survivor is better than none.

Egypt's government threatens to attack the Morsi supporters by Sunday.

The coup-installed "business-friendly" government in Honduras seems to encourage the murder of indigenous leaders who oppose dams in their land.

The More Nefarious US Foreign Policy, The More It Relies on Media Complicity.