City Council member Yuka Ogata brought her baby with her to the council meeting, to dramatize the shortage of childcare in Japan, but male council members forced her to leave the meeting.

The "crocodile" that seems to be making himself the new president of Zimbabwe was the strongest supporter of Mugabe's tyranny until recently.

The Ghouta region of Syria, near Damascus, is still held by rebels. Assad's forces are starving them out.

The UN should consider amending the rules of war to recognize the large chance of civilian casualties from even small bombing raids on soldiers in cities.

Some extremist Hindu-theocratic Indian agitators are making threats of violence against the female star of a film, offering bounties for mutilating her, and doing so with impunity. Perhaps this is because the Hindu-theocratic ruling party doesn't mind them much.

They are also threatening arson in the UK to suppress its release there.

This calls to mind the violent threats of Iran against those involved in publishing The Satanic Verses. In both cases, the threateners seem to be mistaken about what the work actually says, and not interested in correcting their error.