- Pakistan and India exchanged mortar and small arms fire along the borders of the disputed Kashmir region, both sides claiming the other fired "unprovoked".
- Tennessee lawmakers have voted to bring back cursive handwriting classes for children in grades 2-4 as a reaction to national Common Core educational standards emphasizing keyboarding.
- The government of Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi is offering to resign within the next month in order to stop protests by the Shi'ite Houthi movement.
- Iceland's Coast Guard is on alert after scientists have detected increased activity in one of the country's largest volcanoes, Bardarbunga.
- The latest Entertainment Software Association survey of gamers now finds women gamers 18 and over make up 36% of gamers, more than twice that of boys under 18, at 17%.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed. -- Benjamin Franklin
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