Sunday Teaching & Lessons: 'The World and Its Creator'… « Mark ...

Singapore's High Court sentenced Alan Shadrake, a 76-year-old British journalist, to six weeks in jail for having impugned the impartiality of the city-state's judiciary in a book he wrote about its use of the death penalty. ... The UN denies this, and attributed the demonstrations to campaigning for an election due later this month. The cholera outbreak has now claimed more than 1100 lives. [pub. 21/11]. Russia's Gazprom bought a stake in four oil-exploration blocks in ...