* UN investigators release 372-page report accusing North Korea of crimes evoking Nazi-era atrocities. * Infrastructures—access to firearms, prescription drugs—may overshadow mental illness in climbing suicide rates. * Neknomination, disastrous online drinking game in which a person takes shots and challenges others, is sweeping the globe. * Why the U.
* Right now Florida is the only state in the U.S. completely free of snow. * Indonesian volcano erupts; 200,000 evacuated while airports as far as Australia cancel flights due to ash. * Hungary strengthens ties with Russia. * In the U.S., 40% of children are born to single mothers—indirectly
* To explain how many medals a nation will win...the authors considered a nation's population and per-capita income. * Every time a freeze sets in, global warming skeptics crow—a brief explanation of why they're wrong. * Terrifying space footage of England, where wind gusts from 80-
* Traffickers and local police have colluded to keep Eritrean refugees in torture camps in Egypt and Sudan for the past decade. * Audience attendance at Sochi is abysmally low—at times 50% less than stadium capacity—seats are now offered to volunteers. * American bars are too loud and cafes too quiet
* Following years of the Taliban obstructing vaccinations, a Kabul girl is the first to be diagnosed with polio since 2001. * In Iraq, accidental detonation during training kills 22 would-be suicide bombers. * Stigmatizing smokers has gone too far. * North Carolina hospital informs patients they may have been exposed to a
* U.S. government to expand same-sex marriage rights "to the greatest extent possible under the law." * Behind the scenes of how the NFL prospect about to become the league's first openly gay player came out. * According to a former U.S. military drone operator, targets
* Journalists' gleeful schadenfreude about personal inconveniences in Sochi is the hallmark of entitlement. * Post Cold War America and Russia have switched places—America was conservative and nationalistic while Russia was revolutionary. * Chanel No. 5 changed the perfume industry by incorporating musk; after WWII, animal secretions were de rigueur. * Alaska
* Scientists discover entirely new way to reprogram animal cells into stem cells, with no genetic manipulation. * CVS to stop selling tobacco in 2015—an important move, though 75% of all cigarettes are purchased in convenience stores. * In France, hamburgers overtake baguette sandwiches in popularity; the French are also the second
* Afghanistan parliament passes law enabling men to beat their wives and children without fear of prosecution. * When a gang can't afford rent in its neighborhood anymore, "it becomes a weekend gang." * See also: With street lamps switched to LED lighting, Los Angeles will never look the
* WHO says there will be 22 million new cases of cancer each year within two decades. * Alaska has the highest rate of reported rape in America, three times the national average. * South Koreans consume around 14 shots of liquor a week; Russians consume 6 and Americans consume 3. * History of
