Enlarge image i A giant squid stars in this still image taken from the footage Edie Widder shot. It’s the first-ever video of these giant squids, and it’ll debut in a Discovery Channel documentary airing in late January. Edie Widder/Discovery Channel A giant squid stars in this still image taken from the footage Edie Widder

The head of the National Rifle Association said Sunday that there’s little appetite on Capitol Hill for a ban on assault weapons. “When a president takes all the power of his office, if he’s willing to expend political capital, you don’t want to make predictions, you don’t want to bet your house on the outcome.

France says its military operations in the African nation of Mali have stopped the advance of Islamist militants. “Stopping the terrorists, that’s done,” Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told RTL radio on Sunday. Without France’s intervention, the Islamists would have advanced to Bamako, the Malian capital, he said. French warplanes on Sunday bombed the town of

Enlarge image i Thousands of food and clothing items are organized by Occupy Sandy volunteers in a school gymnasium in Rockaway Park, Queens, after Superstorm Sandy in November. Craig Ruttle/AP Thousands of food and clothing items are organized by Occupy Sandy volunteers in a school gymnasium in Rockaway Park, Queens, after Superstorm Sandy in November.

Men bathe in the evening in a branch of the Artibonite River outside Saint-Marc. Haiti’s cholera outbreak in 2010 began about 60 miles upstream from here. John W. Poole/NPR Not quite 10 months after Haiti’s devastating 2010 earthquake, a more insidious disaster struck: cholera. Haiti hadn’t seen cholera for at least a century. Then suddenly,

The Baseball Hall of Fame is a tourist attraction, not a papal conclave. And the people who cast votes for the Hall are sportswriters, not the College of Cardinals. But there was something momentous this week when the Baseball Writers Association elected no one to the Hall of Fame. Not Roger Clemens, who won a

Acne medicine, in Turkish. Dave Keck An apparent feud between two black-market pharmacies has shed light on a shady global industry. “Rx-Promotion and SpamIt probably are responsible for upwards of 50 or 60 percent of spam that you and I got in our inboxes over the last five years,” said Brian Krebs, a cyber-security reporter

Evidence of loss remains even three years after a massive earthquake claimed the lives of as many as 200,000 people in Haiti. In the middle of Haiti’s capital, Port-au-Prince, there is a cathedral whose sun-washed walls reach into the sky where a roof used to be. A lone flagpole marks the spot where the National

Enlarge image i The interior of a United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images The interior of a United Airlines Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images “Federal regulators say they are ordering a comprehensive review of the critical systems of Boeing’s 787s, the aircraft maker’s newest and most technologically advanced plane, after a fire

Tsiferblat, or Clockface Cafe, in Moscow draws a young crowd, from students to entrepreneurs. The cafe provides Wi-Fi, printers, books and art supplies. Drinks, snacks, atmosphere and the space are free. All customers pay for is time. Courtesy Of Diana Derby Cafe life has taken hold in modern Russia. From Starbucks to local chains such

Enlarge image i A donkey bitten by a hyena is checked by a veterinarian as the owner calms the animal at The Donkey Sanctuary, a clinic near Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, in 2005. Boris Heger/AP A donkey bitten by a hyena is checked by a veterinarian as the owner calms the animal at The Donkey

Enlarge image i Journalist Paul Salopek, shown here with his supplies in Ethiopia, is setting out on a seven-year walk that will take him to the tip of South America. John Stanmeyer Journalist Paul Salopek, shown here with his supplies in Ethiopia, is setting out on a seven-year walk that will take him to the