Cats sit on a car in the Saudi capital Riyadh. Saudi Arabia's religious police have announced a ban on selling pet cats and dogs or exercising them in public in the Saudi capital, because of men using them as a means of making passes at women, an official has said.
"Would that I had a folio to write, instead of an article of a dozen pages! Then might I exemplify how an influence, beyond our control, lays its strong hand on every deed which we do, and weaves it's consciousness into an iron tissue of necessity."