24 August 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 24 Aug 2010 Six parliament members among 32 dead near Somali presidential palace, following 40 killed on Monday. More on America's disappearing plastic refuse, which has quadrupled since 1980. Jerusalem light railway considers segregating carriages along gender lines. Beijing goes all "aw-shucks" upon learning it overtook Japan to become the world's second largest economy. Fortune gets inside the "obsessively secretive" business culture of Trader Joe's. Adam Curtis explains the psychology of 1960s advertising. Brief interview with the National Enquirer's Barry Levine, who's finally getting some respect. Why we're suckers for stories of our own demise: Imagining the end of the world is nigh makes us feel special. Ten funnniest jokes at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe Festival explained. See also: 10 funniest jokes at the 2009 Fringe. Illusions, movies, and speed shifts mean UFOs are traveling slower. Giles Turnbull's adventure with a dog into the hidden bunkers where Britain stores its secrets. Scientists use new pulsar-flash method to weigh planets from the comfort of Earth. Notes from a fascinating psychological-distress study on spirit possession and its link to mental illness in post-civil war Mozambique. Saga of an aristocratic family that plunged into conspiracy theories and turned on each other. Key to the hipster key party: the make-out hoodie.
