Pakistan has released an aged and ill former Taliban leader.

Normally, people that old are no danger to anyone, and releasing them from compassion is good. This one may not be incompetent.

The UK kicked the Chagossians out of their homes, and now makes it prohibitively expensive for younger Chagossians in the UK to become UK citizens. They face deportation to the Seychelles, where they are second-class citizens.

Jeanette evidently has many children. It would have been wiser and more socially responsible for Jeanette to use birth control and abortion to avoid some of those births. Whether that's her responsibility depends on the circumstances. Perhaps others blocked her from doing the right thing.

The EU will aim to eliminate single-use plastics packaging.

Just making packaging recyclable will not cause it all to be recycled. Something more is needed to achieve that.

A fictional (as yet) movement calls for independence of "Tabarnia" — the coast of Catalonia from Tarragona to Barcelona — from Catalonia.

The people in that region of Catalonia do not want to separate from Spain.

The latest changes in Facebook's newsfeed reduce access to publishers but boost fake news.

It seems many people have got out of the habit of looking for interesting publications in any way other than through Facebook.

This bodes very ill.