March 15, 2012: Morning
- Guardian reads cache of Assad's emails, finds him mocking reforms, exchanging YouTube videos with his wife.
- Nobel winner Shirin Ebadi urges Arab Spring reformers to learn from women's suffering after Iran's revolution.
- Three months shy of its 10th birthday, the Hague's International Criminal Court hands down its first verdict.
- HBO cancels Luck after a third horse dies during filming.
- Actors from hit TV series establish "spoiler etiquette" for fans.
- Study finds even the suggestion of an unknown woman makes men dumber.
- Geologists say vast earthquakes are coming to the Pacific Northwest.
- Risks are "imminent and serious" for sea-level rises—Florida, Louisiana, and the Carolinas to see biggest impact.
- See also: Disaster experts pick their worst-case scenarios.
- Debate in North Dakota split on reservations and across the state on whether to retain the "Fighting Sioux" team names.
- China's basketball culture features fisticuffs; Stephon Marbury denies he's involved.
- UK Starbucks must now ask customers' names.
- Brief profile of 'Lo Heads (Polo devotees) and other sartorial obsessives and obsessions.
- Round-up of music videos done by established photographers.