May 2, 2016

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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. #video

Forty-six percent of the world’s population lives in a country without a free media.

I was running on CPT, which stands for jokes that white people should not make. 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. #opinions

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.