Japan This article is more than 8 years oldFake sleep researcher thought to have drugged and raped scores of womenThis article is more than 8 years oldPolice in Japan say suspect who pretended to be running clinical trial posted footage of attacks on the internetJapanese police have arrested a man for allegedly drugging and sexually assaulting more than 100 women who believed they were taking part in a medical study.

MediaSt Louis TV journalist’s quirky segment contemplating dreary winter cityscapes and broken umbrellas resurfaces every year April may be the cruelest month, but February straight up sucks. This is the “news” that was broken by local reporter Kevin Killeen of St Louis’s KMOX, in a 2016 video segment declaring February “an honest month” because it is one that “doesn’t hold up life any better than it really is”. The segment mixes Killeen’s straight-faced, deadpan local news delivery with an almost avant garde absurdity.

GermanyGerman farmers block roads with tractors in subsidies protestPartial U-turn by Berlin fails to avert week-long nationwide action that government says could be co-opted by righwing extremists German farmers blocked city centres, highways and motorway slip roads with tractors at the start of a week-long, nationwide protest over planned cuts to agricultural sector subsidies that the government said could be co-opted by rightwing extremists. “We are exercising our basic right to inform society and the political class that Germany needs a competitive agricultural sector,” the president of the German farmers’ association, Joachim Rukwied, told Stern magazine on Monday.

ShortcutsUS newsA self-published book about the death of an 11-year-old girl in 1986, in Argos, Indiana, might to the killer's arrestWhen Thomas Crowel visited a cemetery in Argos, a small town in rural Indiana, a few years ago he had no idea that it would change the direction of his life and lead to the reopening of a cold murder case. He came across the tombstone of a girl called Brandie Peltz who died in 1986, aged 11.

GamesLashings of fun? Microsoft reveals new Indiana Jones gameCan MachineGames’s new first-person adventure Indiana Jones and the Great Circle live up to the third-person thrills of Indy-influenced hits Uncharted and Tomb Raider? History is not exactly littered with glittering Indiana Jones video games. The beautiful LucasArts adventure, The Fate of Atlantis; the pretty good Lego games; the decent Emporer’s Tomb; the presentable SNES side-scroller, Greatest Adventures … There have been good games, but few classics that transcend the brand like, say, Knights of the Old Republic.