May 2, 2016

• US and Russia possibly to draw up map of "safe zones" in Aleppo, hoping Russia can convince Syria's Assad to obey.
• Photographs and brief interviews from inside Aleppo, where over 250 were killed by airstrikes last week.
• Twenty years after Australia enacted strict gun control, the chance of being murdered with a gun has dropped 72%.
• New British nuclear station to cost $35 billion to build, nearly the most expensive object on Earth.
• New report lists even more devastating environmental damage caused by the BP oil spill.
• Florida rivals southern California as the rich world’s most inventive, exuberant urban laboratory.
• The amount of steel rebar traded in Shanghai hits record 1.3bn tons—enough to build 178,082 Eiffel Towers.
• World's top freediver breaks his own record by plunging 122 meters—deeper than an inverted Big Ben.
• Man circumnavigates the world and edits his footage down to one second for each of the 200 days he traveled.
• Forty-six percent of the world’s population lives in a country without a free media.
• Complete transcript of Obama's jokes at the Correspondents Dinner.
• If Trump wins Indiana decisively tomorrow, he likely wins the GOP nomination.
• Dozens of military professionals asked to describe their reaction to a Trump presidency: "Terrified," "shocked," "appalled."
• Study finds that mass government surveillance results in a frightened, self-censoring populace.
• Saying "I feel like" is a linguistic dodge, seemingly humble but actually a wall that prevents debate.
• Echoes of 1994 Rwanda heard in current Hutu-Tutsi relations in Burundi.
• Remains of famed mountaineers Alex Lowe and David Bridges found last week, 16 years after their disappearance.
• Man watches his missing iPad take a vacation, sends it balloons when it finally seems to rest.
• Photographs from Italy's dreaded Valtellina Vertical Tube race: 2,700 stairs to climb in 1km.
• If there’s one thing the Braves know how to do, it’s how to get money out of taxpayers.