- Pope Francis is calling for a one-year global moratorium on the death penalty, ushering in what the Catholic Church has deemed the Holy Year of Mercy.
- Pentagon officials will present an official plan today to Congress to close the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and to deal with the 91 detainees still there.
- The government of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has agreed to the joint US-Russian cease fire starting Friday, but several terrorist groups are vowing to continue operations in Syria.
- Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates says the world needs a "miracle" on climate change in order to deal with its effects, in a letter to the world's young people asking them to help.
- Microsoft has quietly ended Skype Qik, the messaging service that even the company admits it never needed to roll out in the first place.
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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