Nearly 3 out of 10 online shoppers have taken the plunge to buy an item that costs $1,000 or more. Men are twice as likely as women to buy a big ticket item online, according to a new NPR/Marist poll. (Image credit: erhui1979/Getty Images)

Drawings and drollery from this week’s magazine.

Pierre Abi Saad is the third generation of a family of palaeontologists.

Vessel run by French charity carrying 629 people not allowed to dock

How US entrepreneur Kendra Scott set up and grew her eponymous jewellery company.

A huge fire may have destroyed thousands of voting papers from Baghdad ahead of a recount.

The U.S. is now home to the world’s most powerful scientific supercomputer.

Bruce McCall imagines humorous classified ads in a North Korean newspaper for goods and services that anticipate the outcome of the summit, in Singapore, between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.

Hernandez talks about baseball, Seinfeld and being his own “worst enemy.” Critic Justin Chang reviews the horror movie Hereditary. Offerman play a middle-aged single dad in Hearts Beat Loud. (Image credit: Eric Lin/Gunpowder & Sky)

The Security Council action, believed to a first, came after a video last year appeared to show African migrants being sold as slaves, sparking worldwide outrage.