Andrew Jacobs

In the year since gunmen killed 12 people in Paris in an attack aimed at Charlie Hebdo, a satirical weekly newspaper that had lampooned Islam, jihadis have embarked on an ever-widening campaign of global bloodletting that would appear to have little strategic value.

Miss Canada, otherwise known as Anastasia Lin, has been denied a Chinese visa to attend the monthlong Miss World pageant, presumably because of her outspoken advocacy for human rights and religious freedom in China.