One of China's most critical pollution issues, that of water pollution has taken a turn for the worse, at least on the Huangpu River, the main waterway and water supply for Shanghai.
The driver of the private bus and the ringleader in the brutal rape of the Indian student who died two weeks later, was found hung in his jail cell by guards at 5 am on Monday.
Once again, it seems that the North Koreans have severed ties with the South telephonically.
In a letter today to Democratic Representative Ed Markey of Massachusetts, U.S. Sen. Mark Begich expressed strong disapproval of a letter Markey wrote to Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar on Wednesday urging him to put the lives of animals over those of the residents of King Cove, Alaska.