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and a penchant for skinny jeans.
• The next day, someone -- a rival graffiti artist, suspects Kyaw -- scribbled over his handiwork with a can of black spray paint.
• Before dawn Saturday, as he watched for cops between tea breaks, he painted another wall with an image of Obama scrawled with the words "hello again." He sees it as a shout out from the youth of Myanmar, and hopes Obama will glimpse it during his six-hour visit to the country, the first by a U.S. president.
• Word of Obama's historic visit has spread quickly around Yangon, which is readying itself with legions of hunched workers painting fences and curbs, pulling weeds and scraping grime off old buildings in anticipation of the president's Monday arrival.
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• NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- The eruption of a fire on an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico -- which left two workers missing and four others badly burned -- is a vivid reminder of the dangers involved in offshore drilling and the risk it poses to the gulf's ecosystem and shoreline.
• The Coast Guard was searching early Saturday for two workers missing after the fire broke out Friday, sending an ominous black plume of smoke into the air reminiscent of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that transformed the oil industry and life along the Gulf Coast.
• The blaze, which started while workers were using a torch to cut an oil line, also critically injured at least four workers who had burns over much of their bodies. The four were being treated late Friday at the burn center at Baton Rouge General Medical Center.
• Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Bobby Nash said late Friday that a Coast Guard cutter was continuing its search into the night, and that a broader rescue effort would resume after daybreak Saturday.
• The images Friday were eerily similar to the massive oil spill that killed 11 workers and took months to bring under control. The fire came a day after BP agreed to plead guilty to a raft of charges in the 2010 spill and pay a record $4.5 billion in penalties.
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