David and Fiona Fulton have each been sentenced to a year’s hard labour by a court in The Gambia, West Africa. The Fultons, who have three children including a two-year-old adopted daughter, were charged with sedition over e-mail correspondence in which they criticised President Yahya Jammeh and the influence of Islam in the tiny [...]

The National Human Rights Commission of Korea has accused Korean Air Lines of sex discrimination because the airline refuses to hire male flight attendants. The company forthrightly admits that it won’t even entertain applications from men who want to be flight attendants.
Korean Air told the commission to shove off respectfully declined to comply.
Korean Air [...]

Assyrian International News Agency reports on female genital mutilation (FGM) in Kurdistan.
Sheelan Anwar Omer, a shy 7-year-old Kurdish girl, bounded into her neighbor’s house with an ear-to-ear smile, looking for the party her mother had promised.
There was no celebration. Instead, a local woman quickly locked a rusty red door behind Sheelan, who looked bewildered when [...]

Researchers studying the mating behaviour of bison discovered something remarkable: The more noise a bull makes, the less likely he is to sire offspring.
During bison mating season, the quietest bulls score the most mates and sire the most offspring while studs with the loudest bellows see the least action, according to a surprising new study [...]

Pigs fly in Holland.
The biggest left-wing political party in the Netherlands, the Dutch Labour Party, has released a position paper calling for an end to the country’s failed model of “tolerance”.  Immigrants should be expected to integrate into Dutch society, and the government must be free to criticise cultural practices it finds repugnant.
The paper said: [...]

The collect for today, the commemoration of John Wycliffe, (c 1320-84),  Scholar, translator of the Scriptures into English, (source):
O Lord, God of truth, whose Word is a lantern to our feet and a light upon our path: We give you thanks for your servant John Wyclif, and those who, following in his steps, have labored [...]