Rants and Raves

Rants —

China has officially admitted that a police officer and a Tibetan were killed in a gunfight in a remote area of Northwest China last week.

More than 3 million Latino immigrants in the United States have stopped sending money home to their families during the past two years.

Raves —

A Torah hidden in a Polish cemetery to keep it safe from the Nazis during World War Two has been restored.

The genetic makeup of tigers in captivity is more distinctive than previously thought, according to a new study in Current Biology. This bodes well for attempts to bring the tiger back from near-extinction.