May 31, 2013: Morning
- New report suggests widespread use of human trafficking in Thailand's fishing industry, a major supplier for the U.S.
- Unemployment rate in the eurozone reached new record high of 12.2% in April, with 19.38 million people out of work.
- Children who accidentally digested medical marijuana begin appearing in a Denver hospital.
- Tourists warned away from Egypt's pyramids due to aggressive harassment.
- Photographs of people with their arms crossed from the front pages of their local newspapers.
- Aerial pictures of Libya show "a continuity of more than 2,000 years of human habitation along the coast of North Africa."
- Promising sonar images may reveal the remains of Amelia Earhart's aircraft and solve the 76-year-old mystery of her disappearance.
- Economist explains why Kenya leads in mobile money: an exceptionally high cost of sending money by other means.
- The economic reason not to recommend your favorite bar to anyone: bar supply elasticity.
- Bartenders who don't understand thermodynamics should keep away from explaining the appeal of big ice cubes.
- Oldie but goodie: Head of Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey hired former CIA hand to torment freelance writer for revealing family secrets.
- Female authors, "busy sealing Bridget Jones’s coffin," defend equal right to promote unlikeable characters.
- Results compiled of unpleasant experiment where people text "I haven't been fully honest with you" to their significant others, then don't reply for an hour.
- BBC has faced 152 new allegations of sexual abuse in the last seven months, 48 of them involving Jimmy Savile.
- Ricky Gervais resurrects original Office David Brent character to teach you how to play guitar.
- Tribute to costumes from Last of the Mohicans.