The British Tory party's compassion is not entirely fictitious, although the object of that compassion is. The party has united in support of a review of the sentence imposed on one of the characters on Coronation Street, the long-running soap opera.

Rep. Jay Kim asks for his federal sentence of house detention to be postponed, as it would interfere with his reelection campaign.

The new mayor of Russia's 3rd largest city Novgorod is convicted felon (fraud, pornography and embezzling a state loan) and nightclub owner Andrei "The Pimple" Klimentyev. He ran openly as a gangster, but then again the person he defeated ran openly as a lawyer.

102-year olds in the news: a woman who emigrated from the US to Israel, the oldest such emigrant ever (I think they told her it was Florida); a British man who was declared missing in action in the Great War but turned up in time for his own funeral, 80 years ago.