November 12, 2011: Weekend
- Syria suspended from Arab League and sanctioned, but international intervention is unlikely.
- While Italian and Greek PMs have resigned, French politics could be transformed.
- Director of French state energy company jailed for three years for spying on Greenpeace's anti-nuclear campaign.
- In wider French hacking trial, cyclist Landis was given a 12-month suspended sentence.
- Do the humanities need to be defended from hard science?
- Why Ghanian journalists chase the gold miners in spite of bribes, death threats.
- TMN's Llewellyn Hinkes on how the cocaine price drop links to the decline in crime.
- A wife relays a second-by-second account of how social media saved her husband in Kyrgyzstan.
- Major League Soccer is now American's third most popular sport, by attendance.
- Walmart plays coy about becoming a primary care provider—money is in healthcare, not HDTVs.
- Atlas Shrugged DVDs recalled due to blurb noting the "timeless novel of courage and self-sacrifice."