Rock climbing This article is more than 2 months oldMan arrested over alleged mass shooting plot at Oregon climbing event This article is more than 2 months oldSamson Zebturiah Garner being held on $10m bailPolice say they found guns and evidence of plot in carA man has been arrested in Oregon over an alleged plot to carry out a mass shooting at a rock climbing event. Samson Zebturiah Garner, 39, was taken into custody in Deschutes county after local police were informed by detectives in Portland, Oregon, that the suspect was “planning a violent attack during an event” in the area.

GrrlScientistZoologyMystery bird: Asian verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassinaThese Asian birds get their bright blue colour from the structure of their feathers rather than from pigmentsAsian verditer flycatcher, Eumyias thalassina, Swainson, 1838 (synonyms, Eumyias thalassinus, Muscicapa melanops and Stoparola melanops; protonym, Muscicapa thalassina), also known as the Indian verditer flycatcher, as the verditer flycatcher, the verditer-blue flycatcher, or as the copper-blue flycatcher, photographed at Hong Kong, a Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China.

The Big IdeasPhilosophy This article is more than 11 years oldRousseau shows us that there is a way to break the chains – from withinThis article is more than 11 years oldAnne Deneys-TunneyThrough the concept of the 'general will', Rousseau believed that the alienation of man could transform itself into freedom"Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains." The opening sentence of Rousseau's The Social Contract not only summarises his entire philosophical system, it also proves how important he still is today.

New Zealand This article is more than 2 months oldNew Zealand gangs may be forced to cover facial tattoos with makeup, incoming government saysThis article is more than 2 months oldBan on offensive facial markings could come as part of wider crackdown on gangs, National party says New Zealand’s gangs may have to cover up offensive tattoos with makeup if the incoming government’s crackdown on gang activity goes ahead. On Thursday, the National party’s police spokesperson, Mark Mitchell, told the national broadcaster RNZ that if its proposed ban on gang patches – large insignia sewn on to jackets, for example – does not work, then it would consider making gang members apply foundation over their facial tattoos, or face arrest.

Buffalo shooting This article is more than 1 year old‘She got mad’: 911 dispatcher allegedly hung up during Buffalo shooting callThis article is more than 1 year oldDispatcher could lose her job after Tops employee says dispatcher took on a nasty tone and asked her why she was whispering A 911 dispatcher has been placed on administrative leave and will probably be fired after allegedly hanging up on a Tops supermarket employee during Saturday’s shooting rampage in Buffalo, New York, where a white supremacist allegedly killed 10 people.