UK - Britain is "seriously considering" taking legal action against Spain over extra checks at the border with Gibraltar that have caused long delays, Prime Minister David Cameron's spokesman has said.
UK - David Cameron will this week begin his attempt to win over European leaders to his reform agenda for the EU, which will involve meetings with Mariano Rajoy, the Spanish Prime Minister, Francois Hollande, the French President, and finally Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor.
USA - Once upon a time, the police were one of the most respected institutions in America, but now most Americans fear them. Almost every single day there are multiple stories of police brutality or misconduct that make the national news.
USA - A former US Attorney who represents whistle-blowers with knowledge of what happened when armed militants attacked the US Consulate in Benghazi, Libya last year says 400 surface-to-air missiles were 'taken from Libya' during the attack, and that the US intelligence community is terrified they might be used to shoot down airliners.
SCOTLAND - Officials of the left-leaning Scottish National Party have introduced legislation to appoint a paid “personal guardian” to oversee the raising of every child in Scotland.
USA - Private Equity firms have seen this coming for months. They’re positioning themselves for it. In April, Leon Black, CEO of Apollo Global Management, explained it this way to an incredulous world: “We’re selling everything that’s not nailed down.”
CANADA - Using a large population-based sample, this study aims to verify whether televiewing at 29 months, a common early childhood pastime, is prospectively associated with school readiness at 65 months.
UK - The whole of the country must "get behind fracking", which ought to get "real public support" once its benefits are explained, David Cameron has said.
JAPAN - Contaminated groundwater accumulating under the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant has risen 60 cm above the protective barrier, and is now freely leaking into the Pacific Ocean, the plant’s operator TEPCO has admitted.
SPAIN - Spain is considering forging an anti-British alliance with Argentina, adopting its strategy over the Falklands Islands, as the diplomatic row over Gibraltar intensifies.
UK - Kathleen Taylor, a neurologist at Oxford University, said that recent developments suggest that we will soon be able to treat religious fundamentalism and other forms of ideological beliefs potentially harmful to society as a form of mental illness.
USA - Presidente Barack Hopium Obama canceled his scheduled meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week. Although Hopium didn’t give his reason for the cancellation, the media stoogery speculated it was because of Russia’s protection of whistleblower-patriot Edward Snowden.
VATICAN - Pope Francis has urged Christians and Muslims to work together to promote mutual respect, particularly by educating new generations of believers.
JAPAN - How much is 1,000,000,000,000,000 yen worth? Well, a quadrillion yen is worth approximately 10.5 trillion dollars. It is an amount of money that is larger than the "the economies of Germany, France and the UK combined".
USA - The West can no longer rely on American leadership in the world. For the remaining duration of the Obama administration, Washington’s judgment and effectiveness in foreign policy cannot be trusted.