Failing to distinguish between licensed online pharmacies (Canadian or otherwise), which require a valid prescription and sell safe medications, and rogue online pharmacies, which sell lethal fake medicines or flout prescription requirements, means poor patients have less information to make good choices about the drugs they require.

The news that al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula nearly blew up a US aircraft last week is a reminder of its continuing strength.

Everyone knows presidents have larger-than-life size egos. It goes with the job. But changes on the official White House website reveal that we've never had a self-regarding narcissist quite like the oval Office's current occupant.

Google's unfolding confrontation with China has high stakes for foreign businesses and governments facing Beijing's ire, with a broader problem of unfettered, apparently limitless Chinese regulatory and trade restraints.

Google's decision to stop censoring searches on its China-based servers, rerouting search requests instead to its uncensored Hong Kong facilities, is historic.

China's leaders are calculating that it pays to be populist and anti-Western, but they are well aware of how many of its citizens are unhappy with a government whose rule is marked by increasing levels of corruption and inequality.

Google's move to withdraw business from China may represent an aggressive corporate step forward in insisting on reciprocal fair dealing and the U.S. government and American businesses should follow suit.

The future is on the way.  Leading-edge innovators, we are assured, have already moved on, and are earnestly focusing on the just the sort of problems - manufacturing, energy, transportation (and I'd add healthcare) - that urgently require imaginative solutions.