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  • A woman casts her ballot Tuesday at a polling station in Nasr City, Cairo.
    Egyptians Go To Polls With Opposition Largely Silenced
    Arrests and other intimidation have kept critics from being able to organize and speak out. The interim government's message: If you're really an Egyptian than you'll vote yes. Opponents say the new constitution further enshrines the military's role in Egyptian life.
  • Indians participated in a candlelight vigil last month to mark the anniversary of the death of a young woman who was gang raped and murdered in New Delhi. Indian media dubbed the woman "Nirbhaya," or fearless. Now, after other high-profile rapes in the country, India has unveiled a handgun for women.
    India Unveils Handgun For Women After Much-Publicized Rapes
    The .32-caliber weapon comes amid a spate of reports about rapes in the country. The gun is named for the victim of a 2012 gang rape and murder in New Delhi. But reaction to the Nirbheek has been mixed.
  • National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander and Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., after President Obama's speech.
    Congress Vows To Step Up To Surveillance Policy Challenge
    If there was a consensus from Congress after President Obama's NSA speech Friday, it was that Congress itself must play a major role to play in the ultimate fix.
  • Review Of Terrorism Cases Finds NSA Spying Helped Very Little
    A report by the New America Foundation found that information obtained from the NSA's phone metadata program spurred just 1.8 percent of the cases. Government claims of the spying programs success were "overblown," the study found.
  • Smoke rises from Independence Square in Kiev, where anti-government protesters are rallying on Saturday.
    Ukraine Minister Says Talks With Protesters Are 'Futile'
    The comment comes as protesters moved to seize government buildings in and around the capital, Kiev, where unrest has intensified in recent days.
  • How Recalculating GDP Can Help App Designers In Nigeria
    Pledge 51 creates applications for Nigeria's low-tech cellphones. The company thinks it could grow its business with help from foreign investors, but Nigeria's low GDP has made that difficult. If the country changes the way it calculates this figure, that could help Pledge 51 bring in new investment.
  • French President Francois Hollande's palace has decided to dive into its wine cellar and sell some of its treasures to raise money and replenish its collection with more modest vintages. About 1,200 bottles, a 10th of the Elysee's wine collection, are being sold at the Drouot auction house in Paris this week.
    France Sells Presidential Wines To Update Palace Wine Cellar
    Some of the finest wines from the cellar of the Elysee presidential palace in France were auctioned off Thursday and Friday. Proceeds from the auction will be used to reinvest in more modest wines from up-and-coming young wine growers.
  • The Woody Allen. There's a quarter in this photograph to give you a sense of scale, but it's so tiny you can't see it.
    Sandwich Monday: The Woody Allen
    For this week's Sandwich Monday, we try the "Woody Allen," made famous by the Carnegie Deli in New York City. It's got pastrami, corned beef, and a whole lot of baggage.
  • Some reputation management companies required that its writers have a certain number of Yelp friends. Yelp says it welcomed the New York attorney general's crackdown on fake reviewers.
    Fake Reviewers Get Zero Stars From New York Attorney General
    Nineteen companies agreed to pay more than $350,000 in penalties to settle accusations that they wrote or bought phony online reviews of their products, services or restaurants.
  • Sen. Ted Cruz, worked a rare Senate overnight shift as he kept up a lengthy diatribe against Obamacare (with many digressions.)
    Wednesday Morning Political Mix — Sept. 25, 2013
    Some of the morning's most interesting political items included Sen. Ted Cruz's anti-Obamacare Senate talkathon... another Republican calling him a "fraud"... and congressional Democrats viewing the GOP shutdown threat as an opportunity for Democratic political gains.
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