4 May 2010: Morning

Times Square bomb suspect arrested while waiting to fly to Dubai.

B.P. says it will cover all Gulf cleanup costs, estimated to be at least $12.5 billion.

Greek public sector workers fulminate prior to Wednesday's planned nationwide strike.

Coffee-break browsing: Easy-to-flip almanac of what remains of al Qaeda.

Round-up of bizarre 2010 U.S. legislation.

Quiet trips: Kim Jong Il to China, Cheney to Riyadh.

Gadhafi: Switzerland uses euthanasia to assassinate rich people.

This is a post-global financial crisis election. Hyperbolic quotes from British candidates.

British sniper sets sharpshooting record after killing from a mile and a half away.

Op: Brown's a nerd, Clegg's mostly soap, and Cameron is a simulation, a texture-mapped character model.

Stephen Walker's astonishing hand-drawn map of a personal London.

Swimming pool simulated for Japan's 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art.

Badu pleads not guilty to disorderly conduct charge.

Cyber sleuthing, old-school gumshoe reporting, and persistent stalking. How Wired found the iPhone finder.

Study from 2007, but still: When danger looms, your brain remembers time moving more slowly after the event has passed.

Instapaper: The Whitman brothers go to war.

Brief account of how Lovecraft's horrifying Cthulhu became unbearably cute, even a manifestation of tentacle porn (NSFW).