12 April 2011: Morning

Libyan rebels reject African Union's proposed roadmap to peace: It's not enough if Gadhafi doesn't go.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit upholds lower court's stay on key provisions of Arizona's harsh anti-immigration law.

Blast in Minsk metro, close to the president's office, kills at least 11.

Op: Deaf culture's unique hallmarks in the U.S. mean members are really an ethnic--rather than disabled--group.

The demand exists, but opening farmers' markets in New York's low-income neighborhoods is a battle of red tape.

Benedictine monks in New Orleans fight for the right to sell coffins without a license.

TMN's Anthony Doerr wins 2011 Sunday Times short story award for "The Deep."

With every year that passes, Earth becomes a little more like a gorgeous, huge, and mismanaged zoo. Doerr predicts our geoengineered planet.

From Hussein's erotic prose to Kim Jong-Il's 1,500 books, dictators have a bad track record as authors.

Bill Morris investigates the decisions that go into crafting today's absurdly long book subtitles.

Texas proposes raising some speed limits to a Texas-sized 85.

Proof, via Israel, that justice "is what the judge had for breakfast."

A lion prepared in 1731 by a taxidermist who had never seen a lion before.

I'm thankful that to you Google could only be a fun way to spell infinity. To my pre-internet ex who died.