Savita Halappanavar

Pro-choice protesters in Dublin, Ireland

Irish women ride the rails to protest restrictions on abortion

Global Scan

Women in Ireland resurrect a protest tactic from four decades ago to fight the country’s restrictive abortion laws. While in China, police crack down on an alleged “brothel” run out of a university hotel. It apparently gave discounts to those who had a student ID. And if you are a gravedigger, or anyone with a professional, or morbid, interest in the dead, there’s a new dating site for you. Those stories and more in today’s Global Scan.