* Obama to announce comprehensive gun-control plan, with 19 separate actions he could take alone. * Since the Newtown massacre, 836 Americans have been killed by gun violence. * Round-up of national gun-control action—measures being considered, fights being fought, and issues up for debate. * Glickman: We must recognize that
* How to fix India's male-superiority complex. * Photos find the link between India's textile and dance traditions. * Report from the beheading of a Sri Lankan maid in Saudi Arabia, where sexual abuse of domestic workers "seems not uncommon." * Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones, "Privatized Prisons:
* France says its military intervention in Mali is "developing favorably," and it has no intention of "staying forever." * Footage of 340,000 who marched in Paris against gay marriage. * Norwegian Seafood Council ad campaign features performers who act out sushi recipes with dance. * Far-away photographs
* How the UN created a cholera epidemic after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti—and then covered it up. * A week after leaving Haiti, Elizabeth Kiem felt the earthquake hit. * Every national anthem in the world played simultaneously. * Americans experience higher rates of disease and injury and die sooner than people
* Extreme weather events increasing in intensity as well as frequency around the world. * Pictures of play and rescue during recent wintry weather in the Middle East. * Iran pledges to produce its own version of Argo, "which lacks a proper view of historical events." * In case you missed it:
* In a rebuke of the steroid era, no one is elected to baseball's Hall of Fame—the second time in 43 years. * Kevin Guilfoile exposes the rampant use of performance-enhancing drugs among famous playwrights. * A new report finds as much as half of all the world'
* Profiles of five senators who will play key roles in determining the fate of any gun legislation * As the guns debate heats up, it's useful to remember Godwin's Law of Nazi Analogies. * Studies show the rise and fall in crime follows a rise and fall in
* Virginia's governor wants to remove the state's gas tax and begin taxing alternative-fuel cars. * The world's largest scale model of the solar system actually covers all of Sweden. * Map of the best and worst countries to be born into today. * Writer calls Richard
* This past year was the hottest ever recorded in the U.S., and the second-worst on the Climate Extremes Index. * Australia's Bureau of Meteorology adds an extra color code at the top end of the temperature scale. * Tennis players protest being forced to play in Australia'
* Photojournalist captures images of modern slavery. * If emancipation did in fact begin long before...Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, what changed on that day? * Venezuelan police raid the home of a Twitter user suspected of spreading rumors about Chávez's health. * Kuwaiti court sentences man to two years in
