August 2, 2012: Morning
By The Morning News
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- U.S. scrambles to assuage Israel from moving first on Iran—officials say Israel is less confrontational in private.
- Despite reforms, Burmese government waging campaign of violence against Rohingya minority.
- Street children in India run their own banking co-op, acquiring life skills and a stake in their own future.
- Bahrain accused of using tear gas against protestors so much that it amounts to torture.
- Israel's army doesn't want the 68,000 ultra-orthodox Jews now required to conscript.
- Psychologists find success asking patients hearing voices to treat them like people.
- China unimpressed by opening ceremony frugality, love winning, ashamed of silver.
- Diversity of junk food, traffic law obeyance, other things that surprise first-time vistors to U.S.
- After economic crash, bitcoins have rallied to highest value in a year on the back of porn and poker.
- Billionaire trumps Nobel by awarding a no-strings-attached $3 million prize to nine physicists.
- President of Belarus, last dictator in Europe, fires generals over foreign teddy-bear airdrop stunt.
