- NASA is sending a faulty instrument discovered in its upcoming InSight Mars mission back to Lockheed Martin for repairs, meaning a scheduled March launch is suspended until 2018.
- Greece's parliament has passes a same-sex civil union bill, but critics say the bill still denies several rights to same-sex couples and could lead to more EU legal action.
- Iraqi Army forces say they expect routed Islamic State forces to be removed from the captured city of Ramadi within days, but that still leaves a third of Iraq under ISIS control.
- Low oil prices continue to take a toll on Alberta's economy as provincial unemployment is on the rise above Canada's national average for the first time in more than a decade.
- A New Zealand judge has ordered Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom to be extradited to the US to face criminal copyright infringement charges.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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