• BART warns protests may force closures

• RBS helped bankroll Europe’s last dictator

The Royal Bank of Scotland faces more damaging revelations about its ethical record after it emerged that the bank was part of a deal to issue more than $800m (£489m) in Belarusian government bonds earlier this year, a month after the country’s leader, Alexander Lukashenko, ordered the brutal repression of pro-democracy campaigners.

“Holy shit!”

• Heat-strapped Texas expects another power record

• Disney factory faces probe into sweatshop suicide claims

• ‘Binge tourism’ reaches a new low when police fire rubber bullets to restore peace.

Brits really take the biscuit. Here they are rioting and setting cars ablaze again, but this time it’s just some ‘cheeky fun’ because it’s happening in Spain. Next time Brixton riots, they should just run up the Spanish flag and say they’re on holiday and we wouldn’t hear a peep from No. 10.

• Not only does the bond market say Greece will default, but the implied haircuts are huge given those interest rates.

• Field Of Economic Dreams

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“The flames symbolize bringing the system down,” he said. “Some might say that the banks are the terrorists.”

• “The Market Has Become Dangerous For Humanity…It Isn’t Reaching Equilibrium, It Is Falling Into Chaos”

• Judge Does Not Find Evidence Of UK Army Systemic Torture In Iraq – Report

• Gore: Global warming skeptics are this generation’s racists

• An artist’s incendiary painting is his bank statement