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Parts of the Berlin Wall remain 25 years after its demise in 1989. (Photo by Janos Balazs)

The rise of invisible unemployment

In the last year, the most important question for U.S. economists and economic journalists has changed from Where are the jobs? to Where are the wages?

The Atlantic

October target for jobs not utilized, while unemployment dropped to lowest 5.8% since 2008

Capital Wired

Heartless: Seconds after woman is killed by subway train, man steals her phone

When it comes to heartless behavior, the actions of 26-year-old Josue Gonzalez take the cake. Gonzalez has been arrested for stealing a woman’s phone seconds after she was hit by a Boston subway train.

Daily Digest

Where a barrier stood in Berlin, lights now illuminate

Frank Ebert, a human-rights activist from East Berlin, was so sure the breach in the Berlin Wall was temporary that he spent his first day in the West stocking up on materials impossible to get in the Communist side.

New York Times

Special section:

Nine surprising facts about the fall of the Berlin Wall

USA TODAY

Fate of Isis leader unclear after US attack in northern Iraq

A key aide to the leader of Islamic State was killed in a US strike on a convoy near the Iraqi city of Mosul that destroyed 10 vehicles carrying a number of the group’s senior militants.

Irish Times

Alaska storm pushing cold air toward lower US

A massive storm expected to help push Arctic air toward the lower 48 states was moving slowly eastward after blasting parts of Alaska’s Aleutian chain with hurricane-force winds.

FOX News

Arctic snap will ice Northern states, whipped down by ‘bomb cyclone’

CNN

PHILANTHROPY AND AID

US charity aid for Israeli settlers comes under scrutiny

A former Clinton administration official and avowed Zionist wants the U.S. to block tax-exempt donations to groups funding Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy

NYC adult home residents asked to repay FEMA aid

The disabled, elderly and mostly poor residents of hurricane Sandy have a new headache: FEMA has asked at least a dozen of them to pay back thousands of dollars in disaster aid.

ABC News

HUMAN RIGHTS

UN anti-torture inquiry to grill Australia on human rights record

Australia will defend its human rights record and asylum-seeker policies when officials front a United Nations anti-torture inquiry in Geneva.

Guardian

Harper signs $2.5B deals with China, and raises human rights issues

Eight years ago, soon after he became Prime Minister, Stephen Harper invited the wrath of the Chinese government by declaring Canada would not “sell out” on human rights just to cash in on trade and investment.

National Post

GOVERNANCE AND POLITICS

Court upholds 4 same-sex marriage bans; will Supreme Court review?

A federal appeals court allowed four states to prohibit same-sex unions — a decision that could force the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the issue.

CNN

Blog:

All the wrong reasons to ban gay unions

Daily Beast

1 million Catalans vote in unofficial independence poll

Catalonia’s government said more than a million voters participated in an informal vote on whether the wealthy northeastern region should secede from the rest of Spain.

The Telegraph

Pass the salt, not the politics - Catalan families split over independence

Reuters

DEVELOPMENT AND TRADE

Massachusetts town weighs nation’s 1st tobacco ban

The Board of Health will hear public comment on a proposed regulation that could make Westminster the first municipality in the United States to ban sales of all tobacco products within town lines.

BusinessWeek

Djibouti plans LNG, oil terminals to develop regional trade

Djibouti will start work on liquefied-natural-gas and crude-oil terminals by March as part of a $5 billion plan to develop regional trade ties.

Bloomberg

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

New particle accelerator technology gets high speeds in short distances

Scientists working on an experiment at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in the US have taken a step forward in developing a technology which could significantly reduce the size of particle accelerators.

Ars Technica

Mars hit by a once-in-8-million years comet dust shower

A pristine distant comet created a once-in-8-million-year fireworks show above Mars last month. But no one got to see it live.

FOX News

Columns And Op-Ed

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Editorial:

When the flu wiped out millions

CNN

Column (Jathan Sadowski and Frank Pasquale):

Creditors use new devices to put squeeze on debtors

Al Jazeera

Column (William Collins Donahue):

Manfred Fischer, pastor of the Berlin Wall

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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GOOD NEWS

2 Americans freed by North Korea arrive back in US, reunited with families

Two Americans who spent months imprisoned in North Korea arrived back on U.S. soil, after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered their release.

CNN

Dad confronts kidnapper, saves 5-year-old daughter

Utah parents were awakened to an unsettling noise at 4:30 in the morning: the sound of their front door opening and their 5-year-old daughter talking.

Yahoo! News

NONPROFITS & NGOS

When should nonprofits consider making a transformative change?

There is no “quick fix” to some nonprofit problems. A new hire, a board retreat, or another task force are not equal to the major challenges that call for transformative change.

Huffington Post

NGOs decry army interrogations

Non-governmental organizations have decried the 2nd Army‘s decision to summon 17 northeastern activists for opposing the military government’s reform efforts.

Bangkok Post

ENVIRONMENT

Another minister fails to protect Israel’s environment

Like his predecessors charged with protecting the environment, Amir Peretz, who resigned yesterday, could not stand up to more powerful ministries and did not galvanize the public around a critical issue.

Haaretz

Australia’s environment is ’going backwards’, green alliance says

Almost half of Australia’s terrestrial ecosystems are threatened, 85 per cent of its rivers have been modified and twice as many Australians die from air pollution annually than road accidents.

Sydney Morning Herald

Renewable energy investment in Australia dropped 70 percent in the past year

Guardian

Photo of the Day

Live, hard coral garden in the Australian Great Barrier Reef (Photo by Brian Gratwicke)

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