29 April 2011: Weekend
By The Morning News
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Egypt to open blockaded border with Gaza while normalizing relations with Hamas and Iran.
Afghanistan, unable to pay for a volunteer army, considers a draft.
Thailand and Cambodia agree to truce in much-ignored, very non-royal-wedding border skirmish.
Chart: Average ages for people marrying in Britain.
Two girls reflect on the glory of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.
Britons will remember today, without work or normal TV to bother them, as the day they cleaned the fridge.
In Mexico, 93% of homes have TVs, 82% have fridges; number of foreigners has tripled since 1990.
Political bloggers outraged after Superman threatens to renounce his U.S. citizenship.
New thing fat people are blamed for: making their friends and family obese.
Christopher Brosius creates high-end perfume so conceptual you can't even smell it.
Video: Women-managed hedge funds outperformed men over the last nine years; 3% of hedge funds are women-managed.
I always assumed the Death Star was primarily designed as a cost-cutting measure.
After year of searching, Warner/Viacom find buyer for L.A.'s famous Grauman's Chinese Theater.
Harvard research fellow elected in online poll to assume Dalai Lama's political duties.
Terrorist-speech analysts say they can predict which college quarterbacks will be good pros.
Revealing what he reads and when, Malcolm Gladwell explains why he's 24 hours behind the news media.
Photos from behind the scenes of Fight for Your Right (Revisited).
Oral history of comedy-writing incubator Modern Humorist, where Aziz Ansari was an intern.
Pictures of New York City when the streetlights go out.
