StupidiNews, Labor Day Edition!

• Some 29 are confirmed dead as Typhoon Talas slammed into Western Japan late Sunday, leaving record rainfall, flooding and wind damage.
• German Chancellor Angela Merkel's party has suffered significant losses in elections in her home state of Mecklenburg as leftist and Green party candidates pushed conservatives to a distant second.
• Twenty years after a deadly chicken plant fire killed 25 in Hamlet, NC, progress in worker safety measures appears to be on the wane.
• The trial of deposed Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak continues in Cairo, but cameras have been banned from the proceedings.
• Smaller tech firms are the new big battlefield players in smartphone patent wars as they line up to get a piece of the multi-billion dollar market.