Japan Will Resume Commercial Whaling

Japan will leave the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial whaling for the first time in three decades.

Chinese human rights lawyer Wang Quanzhang goes on trial today on charges of state subversion in the city of Tianjin.

And Newsday speaks to Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown in Sierra Leone. She’s the city’s first female mayor in nearly 40 years.