* Concerned it might break anti-terrorism laws, the British Library passes on Taliban documents. * French court orders disability allowance for electromagnetism sufferer whose symptoms are blamed on gadgets. * Seeking parole, jailed New York fortunetellers say the psychic industry is a scam. * Obama officially changes the name of America's
* Sixty years ago today, two white men killed Emmett Till—and the Civil Rights Movement began. * "They used to say that the little LA (Louisiana) had a direct line to the big LA (Los Angeles)." * Two extra days in jail is all it takes to turn a petty
* China is investigating 23 people it says are responsible for the Tianjin explosions. * To save New Orleans, the Mississippi River mouth must be abandoned, say engineering and design teams. * New in German vernacular: "Merkeln," which means "to do nothing, make no decisions, issue no statements." * To
* Pentagon investigates whether its ISIS intelligence skewed too optimistic. * Police get new high-tech toys, including unregulated phone-hacking Stingrays ("spy first, ask judges later"). * Freddie Gray's life was testament to another bulwark of racism: poisonous lead paint and the scams that preyed on its black
* Tensions ease between Koreas—North "regrets" land-mine maimings; South to switch off loudspeakers. * Every time the stock market loses this much this quickly, a rebound follows. * A young investor in China: "I have no confidence with regards to the future of our capitalist market." * "
* Russia blocks all of Wikipedia over a page that explains how to make hashish. * Literary magazines for socialists funded by the CIA, ranked. * Twitter kills Politwoops, which monitored worldwide politicians' deleted tweets. * "Racism won't really get addressed in this country 'til people stop looking for
* Science: "Why so many humans are disgusting, heartbreaking, cheating scumbags." * The secret to a happy relationship could come down to science—if only it was so straightforward. * How couples will break up in 2115. * "I can tell you about the moment I heard Pimp C was dead.
* The Bernie Bunch is the problem. * Increased longevity means Japan can no longer afford to gift 100-year-olds with a silver sake dish. * Around 15,000 government email addresses were exposed in the Ashley Madison hack. * Latino children are scared of Trump. * UN will let Iran inspect its own
* German Parliament approves third Greek bailout, as Merkel faces conservative revolt. * Some 2,000 migrants are now arriving daily on the Greek island of Lesbos. * New Orleans, 10 years after Katrina: Officials tout recovery, while 100,000 black residents still haven't returned—and likely won't. * Hillary
* "President Obama declared a bank holiday, to the chagrin of President-Elect Trump." * Footage shows the prime suspect in the Bangkok bombings that killed 20 on Monday. * The IRS breach of more than 300,000 taxpayers' records fits the pattern of being worse than initially believed. * States
