December 12, 2013
By The Morning News
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- Women between 15 and 44 are more likely to be injured or die from male violence than from traffic accidents, cancer, malaria, and the effects of war combined.
- Who is the next Mandela?
- Australia overturns federal same-sex marriage law, declaring all unions that took place under it invalid.
- Russian state TV has been broadcasting "misleading, at time downright odd reports" of the pro-European Ukraine protests.
- Those who have been treated for mental illness are less prone to violence, but their diagnosis sets off legal profiling.
- One in three children under five have no birth certificate, making them ineligible for education and healthcare.
- SantaCon horror stories.
- All the countries that contribute to a single jar of Nutella.
- China's Window of the World theme park contains 130 famous landmarks in 118 acres.
- Mark Liberman compares the sign-language charlatan from Mandela's funeral to Bloomberg's highly "emotive" interpreter.
- Michelle Obama seemed to be rather peeved on seeing the Danish prime minister take the picture. But photos can lie.
- In 1964, telephones promised a life of leisure where housewives took karate and businessmen studied astronomy.
- Fact-checking rumors of Walt Disney's dark side.
- FDA issues warning to Houston cancer doctor whose success rates, though questionable, have won droves of supporters.
- For a woman who at 14 had a relationship with her eighth-grade history teacher, the crime wasn't so clear-cut.
- Put designs from TMN's Jennifer Daniel on your wall, on your phone, and on your torso.
