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Two Taiwan celebrities admitted in court that they paid an agent to fabricate hypertension diagnoses and skip military service, the latest crack in a wider draft-evasion ring that has already netted several stars. The case is a window into how conscription anxiety plays out in Taiwan's entertainment industry.

A factory worker in Xi'an worked the same packing job for 24 years, then died by suicide in the workshop after bladder cancer treatment became unaffordable because no one paid his social insurance. A court ruled the suicide wasn't legally caused by the unpaid premiums — and ordered the company to pay only 20%.

Abbott will pay $670 million to settle claims that its preterm formula caused a deadly infant gut disease — while explicitly denying the formula was at fault. The deal is a study in how mass-tort settlements write the check without the apology.