A Russian editor, Pyotr Lipatov, has secured a rare legal victory after being charged with "fomenting extremism". A court threw out the case yesterday, ruling that prosecution evidence was unpersuasive.

Not enough attention has been paid to a remarkable U-turn, and a piece of buck-passing, by the government over its broken pledge to give defendants in rape cases anonymity.

There are a number of interesting features to today's libel victory by Tamil hunger striker Parameswaran Subramanyam.