►Investigations by Georgian officials detail how left over radioactive materials from the Cold War [1] are making it onto the black market and how smugglers try to move them across borders.

►Blogs are blaming a recent rash of headlight thefts in Amsterdam [2] on marijuana growers. Thirty-five sets of high intensity headlights have been reported stolen from Porsches in the last few months. “As well as producing the correct light-to-heat ratio for growing cannabis, the xenon bulbs are highly energy efficient. Even small-scale cannabis farms require vast amounts of electricity, which makes the bulbs attractive for rogue herbalists,” The Guardian reports. So far the trend hasn’t expanded outside of the Dutch capital.

►Travel and Leisure publishes its list of most dangerous countries to travel [3]. Pakistan, Sudan, Georgia, Lebanon, and North Korea top the list.

►In other news, a typhoon in the Philippines [4] leaves 600 dead and close to 1,000 missing. ♦ The Guardian publishes the first interview with Damon Thibodeaux [5], the Louisiana man recently released from death row after being exonerated by DNA. “He walked out as the 300th prisoner in the U.S. to be freed as a result of DNA testing and one of 18 exonerated from death row,” The Guardian reports. ♦ And a new study says nine out of 10 hospitals have lost personal data [6] in the last two years.