Four young men have vanished in a wealthy section of Pennsylvania over the weekend. Now authorities are conducting a massive search of a large farm in Bucks County about 40 miles north of Philadelphia. They are holding a fifth young man in custody on an unrelated charge but say he is a person of interest. Then, Israel is proposing an artificial island off the shore of Gaza which would be full of shipping facilities and even an airport designed, says the Jerusalem government, to try to improve the lives of Palestinians. Below that, counting people and projecting the world population. Quite a lot of food for thought there. And finally, the European Court of Human Rights has upheld the Belgian ban on the full-face veil. Food for thought there too.