Hard numbers: Congo quashes coup, UN pleads for aid to Sudan, China rescues property, Wisconsin punishes milder conditions

3: Three people have reportedly been killed after Congolese authorities crushed an attempted coup early Sunday. Opposition figures described elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo late last year as rigged, and the country is facing serious problems with rebels – some reportedly backed by Rwanda – in the eastern provinces. Read more about the accusations against Rwanda here.

12: The UN says only 12 percent of requested funds for aid in Sudan have been granted, a sign that the international community is largely ignoring the atrocities being committed in Darfur and across the country, as well as the looming famine. About a thousand people cross the border every day to seek shelter in Chad’s overcrowded refugee camps.

41.5 billionBeijing will set aside some $41.5 billion to finance state purchases of unsold homes, amounting to a direct injection of capital into the struggling and overburdened real estate sector, dragging down China’s economic prospects. The plan is to eventually own these properties and use them as social housing, but authorities acknowledged that even this massive bailout might not be enough to stem the bleeding and said they could eventually expand the program to more than $69 billion.

Tens: Groundskeepers removed dozens of cannabis plants that had sprouted among the tulips in the Wisconsin State Capitol garden. Recreational cannabis use and cultivation is still illegal in the Badger State, and a University of Wisconsin botanist told the AP that the large number of people involved suggested someone had deliberately planted them.