The city of Chennai is copying with running out of water, but how long can it go on? Drought is expected to spread to 20 more cities by next year.

Japan is going to resume overt commercial whaling.

For decades, Japan has dishonestly called its whaling "scientific".

Ironically, the US global campaign against talking about abortion has led to a big increase in abortions in some African countries.

That results from an increase in the pregnancy rate. Sad to say, not all the unintended additional pregnancies will be terminated. Some will lead soon to an increase in unintended births, which will lead in a couple of decades to an increase in unintended deaths.

Jamal Khashoggi warned Moroccan journalist Taoufik Bouachrine that he was a target too.

Bouachrine was subsequently jailed on political charges.

US politics must consider the poor again. A fight between the middle class and the wealthy has pushed them down for decades.