The World

THURSDAY

After 244 years, the Encyclopedia Britannica is going out of print, citing its obsolescence in the digital age. Final version of the leather-bound reference books once sold by door-to-door salesmen is the 32-volume 2010 edition, which weighs 129 pounds.

Greg Smith, a Goldman Sachs executive, resigned with a scathing editorial exposing the firm as greedy profiteers who referred to their clients as “muppets.” Smith, who noted he won a bronze medal for ping pong in the Jewish olympics, also criticized the sun for rising in the east.

A German camerman trampled and killed a fawn-colored ba...