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In response to the Philippines' very serious problem with sex trafficking, the government in power passed the Cybercrime Prevention Act of 2012, which serves to outlaw cybersex, cam girls, and pretty much any scenario in which someone would think to point a web cam at their genitalia -- sorry, ChatRoulette, but your days are apparently numbered. This move, which would effectively ban something like 95% of the Internet and also crack down on organized crime, is no doubt well-intentioned, but may prove difficult to enforce? Yes, we believe so.

While this bright purple and red crab seems impossible to overlook, it was only recently identified by a research team led by German scientist Hendrik Freitag from the Senckenberg Natural History Museum. Beautiful as it is, this crab -- Insulamon palawanense -- lives only in remote regions of the Philippine island Palawan which makes its future quite uncertain. 

Reynaldo Dagsa, a politician from The Philippines, took this haunting picture outside of his home just after midnight on New Year's Day. While he intended to take a picture of his family, Dagsa inadvertently photographed the gunman who would take his life. The man raising the gun in the photo, later identified as Michael Gonzales [crosshairs superimposed], was assisted by a lookout, who you can see behind Dagsa's family; according to local police, the two were "known car thieves and holduppers out on bail," and may have held a grudge against the politician for having them arrested in his capacity as a member of a local anticrime team. Dagsa, who was shot in the arm and in the chest, did not survive the shooting, but the photograph he took helped police catch his killers.