From Jenna Orkin

A "Perfect Storm Is Coming" Deutsche Warns As Baltic Dry Falls To New Record Low

Big banks are joining forces with the firms that were supposed to be disrupting them

Russia and China are drastically scaling up their presence in Antarctica

The Italian Mob Is To Blame For Naples' High Cancer Rates

Whereas in the rest of the world, it's often the government.  But who wants to defend the mob against a smear campaign? - JO

Syrian Residents Are Starving To Death Inside Besieged Town

Germany In Shock After "Monstrous" Attacks, Rape By 1,000 Men "Of Arab Or North African Origin" 

Want to bet that one or more of these will be found to have been fabricated?  That would be a low percentage but it wouldn't matter; what a brouhaha will ensue. - JO

North Korea Confirms It Conducted "Successful Hydrogen Bomb Test" As "Act Of Self-Defense" Against US 

China Set To Establish No-Fly Zone Over Islands After Successful Test Flight 

Here's The Ultra-Clever Way That The Chinese Are Circumventing Capital Controls 

The UK needs to turn an area four times the size of London into peatland if it wants to slow down climate change

 

And... 

Why has a 37-metre tall statue of Mao appeared in the Chinese countryside?

Islamic State's New "Jihadi John" Was Bouncy Castle Salesman, Nirvana Fan, Aspiring Dentist