The US State Department has listed Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates as 'tier 3' traffickers in human beings (essentially condoning and supporting slavery). As such, the US may be forced to apply trade sanctions against said countries. Right.

A Mr. John Jenkins is filing suit against Eastern Associated Coal and Chisler Inc. Seems he lit a smoke in an outhouse and the thing blew up. Methane gas. Yes, of course there's methane in outhouses. Doh! The suit claims negligence in that one of the defendants ran over or otherwise ruptured a methane pipe to cause said explosion. Eastern Associated is a methane producer. This would all be just a silly little accident except for one thing - Mr. Jenkins is a methane power plant operator working for a competing company - North West Fuels. The whole thing stinks. Literally.