March 16, 2015
By The Morning News
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- Robert Durst, subject of HBO doc The Jinx, arrested in murder charges after accidentally admiting his guilt on camera.
- Putin re-appears after a 10-day sabbatical from public life, refusing to explain his disappearance.
- Putin’s carefully cultivated image rests on never showing weakness, which is crucial in hypercompetitive Russia.
- Patricia Marx: If you want to feel bad about your looks, spend some time in Seoul, the world’s plastic-surgery capital.
- Hotel industry now ruled by TripAdvisor.
- Chicago's former Sears Tower is changing hands for $1.3 billion.
- Flood of goat heads is "the only interesting thing" that occurred in Brooklyn's Park Slope over the last three years.
- Sales in the US of "luxury" toilet paper climbed to $1.4 billion last year.
- How much musicians were paid to play Woodstock.
- Math fact: The length of a gently sloping river between source and mouth approaches, on average, pi times its straight-line distance.
- See also: Five facts about 3.14.
- Coming-of-age circumcisions go awry, prompting medical innovation: the penis transplant.
- NYPD edits the Wikipedia entries on Eric Garner, Amadou Diallo.
- No answers from arrest over Ferguson shooting, as suspect claims the police weren't even whom he was trying to shoot.
- Today on TMN: It's Station Eleven v. An Untamed State, decided by Alice Sola Kim.
- TMN's Nozlee Samadzadeh gives evidence of toast's greatness as a morning meal.
- One man remains in Fukushima, staying to feed his departed neighbors' animals.
- Kurdish officials in Iraq claim ISIS used chemical weapons against the Peshmerga.
- President of Pacific island nation Vanuatu blames climate change for the tropical cyclone that left eight dead and thousands homeless.
- Keystone XL may be stuck in limbo, but the US has gained 11,600 miles of pipeline in recent years.
