Segments From This Episode

• Oil leak in Scotland continues to cost Total

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  An oil rig off the coast of Scotland has been leaking oil into the North Sea for five days. The rig is owned by French gas company Total, and is costing millions a day in lost revenue and attempted repairs.

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• PODCAST: Car sales looking up, James Murdoch steps down again

  by Mary Dooe

  

  Car manufacturers report sales numbers for last month today, and one thing that might have hit them hard is gas prices. Next week will mark 100 years since the maiden voyage of the RMS Titanic, and we speak to Robert Ballard, who discovered the Titanic wreck in 1985, about the state of deep sea exploration these days. If you're a regular user of Facebook or Twitter, you're likely familiar with the KONY 2012 video — and now, the group behind it is preparing Kony 2012, Part 2.

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• United Nations looks at world happiness levels

  by Jeremy Hobson and Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  A new report of the world's happiest countries helps point to factors besides GDP that help contribute to a happy population.

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• Is the homeowners’ association liable in the Trayvon Martin case?

  by Stacey Vanek Smith

  

  In cases like the shooting of Trayvon Martin by a neighborhood watch volunteer, it's possible the plaintiffs could add the homeowners' association to an action for its role in setting up the watch.

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• Finalists picked for major economics prize

  by Sarah Stolarz

  The experts have so far had a hard time figuring out what to do if a country like Greece decides to leave the euro, so one British businessman set up a contest in search of ideas.

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• Some carmakers have best sales in years

  by Juli Niemann

  Auto sales for the month of March are trickling out this month and so far the numbers look pretty good. Chrysler said it had its best month in four years with sales up 34 percent. Ford also had its best month in years with sales up 5 percent.

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• Invisible Children continues anti-Kony campaign

  by Adriene Hill

  The group is set to release a follow-up to the controversial video that went viral last month, calling for action against Joseph Kony.

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• Auto profits ride on cuts as much as sales

  by Jeff Tyler

  U.S. automakers see profits on modest sales because they've already slashed expenses.

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• Truck sales expected to keep on trucking

  by Nancy Marshall-Genzer

  Analysts expect March sales to be good as customers swap out gas guzzlers.

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• Government officials fired over lavish spending at conference

  by David Gura

  A new report from the General Services Administration's inspector general says government officials spent hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a training conference near Las Vegas — and the money wasn't only going to binders and bag lunches.

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• The state of deep sea expeditions

  by Jeremy Hobson

  As the 100 year anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic draws near, Robert Ballard — the man who discovered the wreck back in 1985 — is working on a new mission: finding Amelia Earhart's plane.

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