* Obama caught by stray microphone telling Medvedev he'll have more flexibility post-election. * Romney calls Russia America's number-one geopolitical foe. * Japan shuts down another nuclear plant, leaving it with just one reactor. * Map and plans for Napoleon theme park to rival Disneyland Paris. * Man who
* Round-up of lesser-known ways you may be affected by Obama's health care reform. * Interview with Czech economist Tomas Sedlacek. * Broke Irish man lives inside apartment built from 1.4 billion euros. * Earth becomes art through satellite imagery. * Today in #TheRooster: Different characters read Proust for different
* Supreme Court to begin discussion of Obama's health care law, the longest argument in more than 40 years. * David Sedaris visits French doctors. * Soldiers leaving for Afghanistan fear genital wounds most. * Six lies corrected about Jerusalem and Washington. * One of Jerusalem's biggest-ever ethnic clashes sees
Every Friday we take a look back at the week’s headlines, centering on a theme we’ve singled out as particularly important. This week, jungle growth was obscuring New Orleans’s Lower Ninth Ward, while the white saviour industrial complex wanted a growth now, no matter the costs. Like
* Obama nominates Dartmouth president Jim Yong Kim to lead the World Bank. * Kagan: America must prepare for, not deny, its decline as dominator of Earth. * French Muslims wait for France to react to learning that a Muslim was behind the Jewish school shootings. * Relationship between stress and immunity not fully
* EU slaps travel ban and assets freeze on Assad's wife, though she can still visit London. * America's strategic oil reserve should be kept for a real emergency, not squandered for politics. * Former New York Times restaurant critic Bruni diagnosed with gout. * Brief accounting of the lives
* President of the European Central Bank says worst of the eurozone crisis is over. * Q&A on habit, small wins, and why removing kebob stands prevents riots. * "Why I Want to Build Nine Freedom Towers in Tiananmen Square." * People holding guns tend to think other people are
* Department of Homeland Security tried mightily hard to not monitor Occupy protestors. * Trend: Job-seekers being asked to hand over Facebook logins during interviews. * Trend (?): Americans sick of eating leftovers. * Teju Cole on the white savior industrial complex. * "I've met Joseph Kony and Kony 2012 isn'
* Bristol Palin, bashed by Bill Maher, would like an Obama call too. * Hari Kunzru on Damien Hirst's never-ending confidence. * Jenny Diski defends Sean Penn's critique of Britain's "ludicrous, colonialist" hanging on to the Malvinas. * Sound artist renders LA pollution as music.
* White House readies contingency plans as the Supremes review health care law. * Supreme Court to decide whether 14 is too young to be sentenced to life in prison. * Republican big-money outside groups vastly outperforming Democratic counterparts. * Police negotiate with suspected killer of seven people in southern France. * Portrait of
