UK Companies sold chemical weapons components to Syria – A billionaire’s grandson skips out on charges of running down a cop with his Ferrari – And critics say hate is no way to sell a brand of margarine.

When western nations accuse Syria of possessing and using chemical weapons, it could be that they know because they kept the sales records.  Ten months into the Syrian Civil War, the UK government last year gave permission to companies to sell potassium fluoride and sodium fluoride to Syria; this is even though the chemicals are key components in Sarin gas, the nerve agent suspected in the 21 August chemical weapons that the US says killed 1,429 civilians.  Several MPs are demanding an investigation.

Police in New York City are hunting the punks who shot a one-year-old baby boy in the face as he sat in his pram.  But getting witnesses to talk in the roughest neighborhood of Brooklyn is never an easy go for cops, and even the baby’s father, a convicted heroin dealer assumed to be the target of the shooting, isn’t talking with investigators. 

Pakistan has filed new murder charges against former president Pervez Musharraf, once the country’s untouchable military ruler.  These stem from the death of a radical cleric during the siege of a mosque in 2007, a fouled operation that opened the floodgates to the Taliban insurgency that’s killed thousands of people in Pakistan.  Last month, an anti-terrorism court charged Musharraf with the murder of former Prime Minister Benizir Bhutto.

Cops in Thailand want to arrest the grandson of Red Bull’s billionaire co-founder, after 28-year old Vorayuth Yoovidhaya failed to appear in court.  He’s accused slamming his Ferrari into a police officer last September, killing the man. Vorayuth's lawyers claim he is ill and deny he has fled the country.

The Unilever Company has withdrawn an advert for Flora Margarine that critics say is homophobic.  It features a bullet with the words ,"Uhh dad I'm gay," flying towards a heart made of china, and the tagline "You need a strong heart today" near the Flora logo.  I guess the implication is the father’s heart is about to be broken.  Ad agency Lowe and Partner, which designed the controversial advert for the South African market, said it was "very sorry".

Ethiopia is denying it is cracking down on the opposition.  But the Semayawi “Blue” Party says more than a hundred of its members were taken into custody by federal police and many were roughed up.  The Blue Party was planning demonstration condemning police violence at a sit-in at a mosque in Addis Ababa.