* Thailand’s Army declares martial law, but hasn't picked sides between the pro- and anti-government protesters. * Camille Lepage, inspiring 26-year-old French photojournalist, killed while covering the Central African Republic. * Everyone should have a museum dedicated to the worst day of their life and be forced
* Severe flooding in the Balkans has displaced at least 24,300 people and dislodged some of the 100,000 landmines in the region. * Eighty years after two scientists first theorized how light turns into matter, three physicists devise an experiment to prove it. * California has released thousands of Pakistani wasps
* The BJP, India's Hindu-nationalist party, looks to sweep the elections, making Narendra Modi the likely Prime Minister. * GOP gubernatorial primary debate in Idaho hijacked by unlikely candidates, including a biker with "a direct line to God." * After weeks of solitary confinement and police interrogations in
* The NSA reform bill only limits the surface of the agency's spying. * EU ruling gives people the right to ask Google to remove information about them. * Among those asking Google to remove links: a disgraced ex-politician, a convicted pedophile, a doctor with negative patient feedback. * FCC meets
* Turkish mining disaster kills more than 200, with 200-plus others thought to be still underground. * US planes start flying missions to find the more than 200 Nigerian teenage girls abducted by Boko Haram almost a month ago. * Eight days ago, Boko Haram destroyed the small Nigerian town of Gamburo,
* Scientists say the melting of the West Antarctica ice sheet, now underway, will begin an "unstoppable" chain reaction of rising sea levels. * India, the world's largest democracy, goes to the polls. * Iran claims to have replicated an American drone. * Underwater explorer might have discovered Christopher Columbus&
* With 104 billionaires in the UK, Britain now has more billionaires per capita than any other country. * Day in the life of a billionaire's butler. * London restaurant imposes fine on customers who don't finish what they picked up from the lunch buffet. * Putin suspiciously scores six
* Out of all US citizens, men in Portland are most likely to ride a bike to work. * In 39 states (but not New York), Brooklyn is now the most common female baby name beginning with B. * Iowa’s never elected a woman to Congress, but that may change, with many
* Mexico's biggest financial institution thinks migration to the US is on the rise for the first time since the Great Recession hit. * New York's Chinese community mourns the loss of human smuggler—aka "snakehead"—Cheng Chui Ping. * Financial ignorance is widespread even as the
* Mexican farmers stop planting marijuana—thanks to decriminalization in the US—and turn to poppies for heroin. * Zuma and the ANC to win today's election in South Africa despite widely felt shame and disenchantment. * Somali Islamists blamed for two days of attacks in Kenya that killed at least
