A gruesome attack on the Nigerian city of Jos has killed over a hundred people. As social media activists continue to protest the kidnapping of the Nigerian schoolgirls, they’d do well to keep the extent of Nigeria’s problems in mind.

One of the world’s biggest energy producers just inked a deal with the world’s largest energy consumer. The details of the agreement remain murky, but it’s clearly a win for both Moscow and Beijing.

A university is a corporation draped with a bit of ivy: State schools that pay the highest salaries to their presidents also have fast-rising rates of student debt, an abundance of administrators, and a proliferation of adjuncts.

Another defeat for Kemalism: French Canadians roundly rejected a draconian new law preventing all state employees from exhibiting “conspicuous religious symbols” at work.

For the first time, support for fracking dipped below 50 percent in Britain, signaling coalescing opposition to the controversial drilling practice there. It’s too bad UK citizens don’t have the mineral rights Americans enjoy.

A college president makes a smart case that administrative bloat is driven by government regulations and other cumbersome bureaucratic requirements. Sounds right to us.

California Governor Jerry Brown comes up with a plan to pay off the debt of the state’s teacher’s pension funds. It’s the right call, but it will hit school districts hard.

The hacking charges brought by the Department of Justice against five Chinese military officials will certainly enrage China, not to mention color its views of U.S. policy in Asia. Let’s just hope it was a deliberate move.

China may be gearing up for instability in its neighborhood. It’s beefing up its strategic reserves of crude oil at an “unprecedented” rate.

Thailand’s military declared martial law early on Tuesday morning. It’s not a coup, the army chief said, no matter how much it looks like one.