* Spanish unemployment hits new record high, and Spain gets its sovereign debt downgraded. * South Africa's Kulula airline offers deal for polygamists, “Fourth Wife Flies Free." * Research roundup on swearing—everyone knows how, but it still isn't becoming more frequent. * Nature loves biological weapons, and we
* Blind legal activist escapes house arrest in China, now hiding somewhere in Beijing. * Qiu Xiaolong: Bo Xilai never returned my favorite red Double Happiness Ping-Pong racket. * China's ruling Communist Party's People's Daily website debuts on the Shanghai Stock Exchange, surges 78% on its
* Hague finds Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes. * Forty thousand Norwegians gather to sing children's song despised by Norwegian killer. * Then-and-now photo feature by the LA Weekly looks at the LA riots 20 years later. * Clean Air Act credited for 10-year low
* China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year. * Food sources increasingly encourage carnivores—red foxes, coyotes—to trade natural habitats for urban areas. * Testing of nuclear-capable missiles continues, and now it's Pakistan's turn. * Atlantic story refuted: Facebook isn'
* Gingrich unofficially planning to officially announce end of campaign next Tuesday * Recent actions by former Haitian soldiers show why Haiti's better off without a standing army. * Ariely: America needs an agency akin to the FDA to monitor financial products. * Computational neuroscientists estimate the brain's storage capacity
* President Obama slow-jams the news with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots. * Now that Romney has won the primaries, his plan is to attack, attack, attack. * Notes from the "Mormon heart of Mexico," where Mitt Romney's father was born. * Map shows popularity of paying by mobile
* New book by TMN's @Rosecrans, Paris, I Love You But You're Bringing Me Down now available. * Guide to France's history of delightfully conquering people. * Interactive guide to Warren Buffett's thoughts about others. * Brief investigation into why Kevin Hart, the biggest comic working,
* One in two new college graduates in the U.S. are jobless or underemployed. * Weak economy, deportation threat reverses trend of Mexican immigration to the U.S. for the first time in four decades. * Rodney King, 20 years after the riots. * London accused of "social cleansing" over plan
* Why women are a foreign policy issue: This is a "full participation" age. * Two takes on recent pan-African development. * One hundred years of shipping summarized in a short video. * Two generations removed from the Holocaust, young Israelis begin to embrace Germany. * Report from inside Europe's
* After losing to his socialist rival in the first round of France's presidential election, Sarkozy seeks far-right support. * How Paula Reid, who handled the Secret Service scandal, became a leader in the white male-dominated field. * Running with headphones makes you faster. * When exposed to music, dementia
