World

Afghanistan : Nine dead in Taliban assault on British Council in Kabul 

Syria : Syrian forces kill six despite Assad pledge

Somalia : Turkey to set up embassy in Somalia 

Pakistan : Suspected suicide attack kills at least 34 in Pakistan

Money and Markets

Insight: The madness of Wall Street

How do you predict the movement of the Dow with 87.6% accuracy? Apparently, you use Twitter. (via @rossneumann)

Super rich still making money in crisis, thanks to good advice, access to sophisticated investments  (via @bernadettebaum) 

Why the SEC shouldn’t push index funds by @FelixSalmon

Reason to be chipper according to Lex: double dip seems inevitable, but great depression unlikely (via @jimpoco)

Entertainment

Greg @Clayman of The Daily (via Reddit) : In 4 years, the Back to the Future movie will be as old to us as 1955 was to us when Back to the Future came out.

Tech

Ashton Kutcher could face questions from SEC about disclosure

AT&T charges you 10,000,000% more for sending data when it’s in a text message (via @Counterparties)

Apple is worth as much as all euro zone banks

The case for open-source government by @CAFreeland