LET'S FACE IT, THEY'RE JUST NOT VERY USEFUL

Headline: UN urged to send more troops to Congo


Hey I have a question. If you increase the size of a useless force, does it become more useless?

Or does it simply maintain the same level of uselessness, but over a larger area?

I throw it open for debate.

EVIL-DOER PUNISHED

AN ISLAMIST rebel administration in Somalia ordered that a girl, 13, be stoned to death for adultery after the child’s father reported that she was raped by three men. Amnesty International said the al-Shabab militia, which controls the city of Kismayo, arranged for 50 men to stone Aisha Ibrahim Duhulow in front of about 1000 spectators.

That sounds firm but fair.