It’s tough being a cop in Virginia. You may be 10-7 (off duty) when you see a 10-54 (livestock on a highway) cause a 10-50 (traffic accident). There’s nothing to do other than call in a 10-32 (alarm) and a 10-13 (request a wrecker). 10-4? Message received? Probably not.

Hundreds of thousands of women and girls have been raped over the past decade by soldiers, rebels and ethnic militias in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The scale of the assaults has become increasingly evident over recent months as growing numbers of women have emerged for treatment with the reduction in fighting ahead of presidential elections.

Poor people are needlessly dying because drug companies and the governments of rich countries are blocking the developing world from obtaining affordable medicines, a report says on Tuesday. Five years to the day after the Doha declaration — a groundbreaking deal to give poor countries access to cheap drugs — was signed at the World Trade Organisation, Oxfam says things are worse.

Nearly 200 prisoners who were forced to go ”cold turkey” and give up drugs without treatment while in jail accepted £750 000 compensation from the government in the High Court on Tuesday. The prisoners had argued that the short, sharp detoxification treatment in prison was a breach of their human rights.