Every Friday we round-up the links that picked up buzz on the internet. Most of them we also shared throughout the week on Facebook  and  Twitter . Junkyard planet: travels in the billion dollar trash trade . (Adam Minter) ...

Shots fired so close they felt the splash in the water. Knives bared to slash their rubber boats. Russian special forces storming their ship from a helicopter. Five days incommunicado at sea under armed guard. And now, two months of...