NEWS A group of researchers worked for six years to locate the source of rifle and machine-gun ammunition in war-torn regions. The manufacturer was not one of Africa’s usual suspects. C.J. Chivers reports.
France launched a military intervention on Friday in Mali, sharply escalating its involvement in the war there between government troops and armed Islamists after the militants, who now rule the north, wrested control of a strategic village in the center of the country. Adam Nossiter and Eric Schmitt report.
The British police and the country’s leading child welfare group drew a horrific picture of more than 200 cases of sexual abuse, mostly involving children, by the television host Jimmy Savile in a report issued Friday, and prosecutors admitted for the first time that they could have brought Mr. Savile to trial before his death in 2011 but failed to do so. John F. Burns and Alan Cowell report from London.
American authorities said they would order an examination of electrical systems in Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner after a spate of incidents, including a battery fire this week in Boston. Jad Mouawad reports from New York.
French labor unions and business leaders struck a deal on Friday to overhaul swaths of France’s notoriously rigid labor market, moving to tame some of the most confounding rules in the 3,200-page labor code as the country tries to increase its competitiveness and curb unemployment. Liz Alderman reports from Paris.
ARTS Richard Dare, the president of the New Jersey Symphony, resigned after nine days when questions arose over a past criminal case and over his business experience. Dan Wakin reports from New York.
SPORTS The question at the Australian Open is whether Rafael Nadal’s absence makes it any easier for an outsider to win, with defending champion Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Andy Murray still in the mix. Christopher Clarey reports from Melbourne.
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