StupidiNews, Weekend Edition!

• Five New Orleans police officers were found guilty of 25 separate civil rights violations in the fatal bridge shootings after Hurricane Katrina.
• The US State Department is advising all American citizens to leave Syria immediately in the wake of this week's deadly tank crackdown by the Bashar Al-Assad government.
• The Army announced it will cut combat duty tours in Iraq and Afghanistan to nine months as troop drawdowns continue.
• Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim, the world's richest man, has seen his stock portfolio take a nearly $7 billion hit in the last week of global stock turmoil.
• Scientists are studying ways to make desalinization less energy-intensive as the world's population needs more sources of fresh water.