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  • In Japan, a small mouth is considered attractive on a woman, which was a big problem for the country's biggest burger chain. It introduced a wrapper with a large triangle featuring a serene smile, which hides the real mouth chowing down on the burger. Sales to women have gone up 200 percent.
  • The 2009 mutiny by border guards seeking better pay and working conditions left 74 people dead in the capital, Dhaka. The judge in the case called the incidents committed "heinous."
  • President Nicolas Maduro made the announcement a week after he appointed a minister of happiness and just days after he said subway workers had seen an apparition of the late Hugo Chávez.
  • Nine skydivers aboard two small planes flying over Wisconsin had to bail out when the aircraft collided. So did one of the pilots. The other pilot was able to land his damaged single-engine aircraft. NBC's Today Show has photos and video from the accident.
  • Brazil has complained bitterly over reports of U.S spying. Now the country is defending its its operations, saying they were in line with Brazilian law and in "defense of national interests."
  • The cancellations are making some people angry and many anxious. Opponents of the health law feel vindicated. They all cite the conflict between the cancellation notices and President Obama's repeated promise that people who like their existing health coverage could keep it.
  • The U.S. Department of Justice recently announced $6.7 million in grants to provide more legal defense services for the indigent. But will the money really help with what some critics call overworked, underpaid, and poorly trained public defenders? Host Michel Martin asks law professor Eve Primus and Jonathan Rapping of Gideon's Promise.
  • Singer, Mollie O'Brien speaks with Marty Durlin. Molly has released a number of Americana albums with her brother, Grammy- winner Tim O'Brien. She has…
  • The government hopes that deporting the immigrants will open up jobs for Saudi citizens. Many immigrants stayed at home, trying to avoid the raids, leaving parts of the country looking desolate.
  • Chefs and school cafeteria directors say burgers that blend mushrooms and meat are a hit. Mushroom-meat burgers are, on average, 24 percent lower in fat and 27 percent cheaper than regular, all-beef burgers, according to the Mushroom Council.
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