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7 hostages, 11 militants dead after Algeria raid

Algeria’s hostage standoff appeared to come to an end when the country’s special forces killed 11 militants, but not before seven hostages were executed, the state news agency reported.

Former Baltimore Orioles manager Earl Weaver smiled while attending a pregame ceremony before the Orioles-Yankees game at Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Sept. 6, 2012.

Longtime manager of Baltimore Orioles, Earl Weaver, dies at 82

Weaver, the fiery Hall of Fame manager, won 1,480 games and one World Series title with the Orioles.

Biden seemed quite at ease during a September campaign stop at Cruisers Diner in Seaman, Ohio.

Gaffes aside, Joe Biden a power in White House

One of the vice president’s biggest problems (his mouth) has become one of his greatest assets (his ability to connect).

N.H. police chiefs criticized for gun prizes in raffle

The raffle will give away a firearm every day in May, including an assault rifle that closely resembles the weapon used in the Newtown, Conn., massacre.

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Documents show a sophisticated operation, which sent shipments of crack cocaine from Boston to Maine. An almost two-year investigation led to 27 arrests Thursday.

Fans in the stadium might one day be able to listen as Tom Brady talks with offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels. Already they can use Wi-Fi in Gillette.

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Patriots to enhance stadium experience

Order food from your seat? Listen to Josh McDaniels relaying play calls? It could be possible soon — if you have a ticket into Gillette Stadium.

Robert Kraft holds on to memories of his wife Myra, who died in July of 2011. Sunday’s game is dedicated to her.

Robert Kraft talks about life after Myra

The Patriots owner discussed his late wife, Myra, his memories of her, and the challenges of carrying on.

Lance Armstrong denied doping for years.

JOANNA WEISS

Holding your line

Faced with the power of the story, athletes lie and lie again because, as Lance Armstrong said, you can lose yourself in the momentum of that lie.

A broomball game recently played at Reilly Memorial Rink in Brighton. Instead of skates, the game is played in sneakers with participants running on the ice.

Broomball is sweeping Boston

A quirky coed sport played like hockey — but without skates — is gaining traction with college kids and 20-somethings.

Forest Whitaker, left, and Arnold Schwarzenegger in a scene from

Movie Review

Ah-nold is back in ‘The Last Stand’

Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a beleaguered small-town sheriff in a movie that is sometimes loopy due to director Kim Jee-woon’s funny but also oddly arrhythmic approach.

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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited Boston in 1965 and spoke to politicians and residents about many of the city’s racial issues, including segregation.

Globe exclusives

Each gun represents 100 deaths by firearm in 2010.

Sunday Preview | Ideas

The gun toll we’re ignoring: suicide
Lt. Governor Tim Murray.

Scot Lehigh

Murray’s exit good news for Democrats

Sunday preview | Magazine

My friend Tito: Shaughnessy on writing a book with Francona
21st Amendment’s Marooned on Hog Island.

99 Bottles

Fruit beer, pumpkin beer, shellfish beer?
Saxophonist Schiller Joseph, trumpeter E. Daile Beauplant, and organist Jean Louis Daniel played during a service at the New Calvary Cemetery in Mattapan marking the third anniversary of the deadly 2010 Haiti earthquake.

Photo gallery

Globe photos of the week, Jan. 18, 2013
Rob Ninkovich, shown at his locker, has an uncanny knack for the big play, just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Ninkovich is the new Mike Vrabel
Tom Brady and the Patriots will meet Terrell Suggs and the Ravens for the seventh time in six seasons on Sunday.

Patriots vs. Ravens | Sunday, 6:30 p.m.

Patriots-Ravens has risen into prime NFL rivalry

Kevin Cullen

Ortiz should offer answers
Among the 161 works Daphne Farago has given the Museum of Fine Arts is John Cederquist’s “Couchabunga” (1992).

Gift boosts MFA’s contemporary stock
At 5-9, Wes Welker, center, is dwarfed by some of his larger Patriots teammates.

Smaller players fill vital roles for Patriots
Paul Sullivan of Captain Marden's Seafoods and Peter Klein, a manager at John Nagle Company, look over escolar (sometimes called white tuna or ex-lax fish) caught off Puerto Rico. Legislation expected Friday would impose fines on places that mislabel seafood and make Massachusetts the first state to ban escolar.

Fishy business

Bill carries fines for mislabeled seafood
Scarlett Johansson in the Broadway revival “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.”

Stage Review

On Broadway, ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is merely tepid

Sports

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Daniel Paille, Gregory Campbell, and Shawn Thornton are grinders who represent the values of the team: courage, tenacity, and dedication.

Fourth line is critical to Bruins

Daniel Paille, Gregory Campbell, and Shawn Thornton are grinders who represent the values of the team: courage, tenacity, and dedication.

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Snow spindrifts were seen blowing off of the rock face of Huntington Ravine (seen at right in snowy area) in New Hampshire on Friday.

Mount Washington hikers in avalanche rescued

Three climbers fell 800 feet, including a Marine who lost his leg in Iraq and was there to raise money for veterans.

Columnists

DERRICK Z. JACKSON

Are all shootings equal?
An oil-covered brown pelican sits in a pool of oil northeast of Grand Isle, La. after the BP oil spill.

RENÉE LOTH

Corporate settlements deny accountability
Lt. Governor Tim Murray.

Scot Lehigh

Murray’s exit good news for Democrats
Lance Armstrong denied doping for years.

JOANNA WEISS

Holding your line

carlo rotella

He beat Mike Tyson

Joshua Green

Do gun laws stand a chance?: Electorate wants change

Scot Lehigh

Patrick’s education proposal should reform more

Tech Lab

New gadgets bring over-the-air TV to mobile devices

JULIETTE KAYYEM

Walmart’s veterans program is temporary relief

joan vennochi

Swartz case is sad, but not an overreach

Kevin Cullen

Ortiz should offer answers
Rob Ninkovich, shown at his locker, has an uncanny knack for the big play, just like another No. 50 from the Patriots’ glory days, Mike Vrabel.

Christopher L. Gasper

Rob Ninkovich is the new Mike Vrabel

Nation & World

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Captain Jeff Fobb of the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue’s venom response unit held a python during kickoff ceremonies for the Python Challenge in Davie, Fla.

Fla. pythons elude seasoned hunters

Only 21 invasive pythons were killed in a Florida contest aimed at ridding the Everglades of the species.

Politics

House GOP agrees to lift borrowing limit

House Republicans said they would agree to lift the debt ceiling for three months with a requirement that Congress pass a budget plan.

Business

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Walter Cowham of Quincy has installed two solar panel systems at his home since 2010.

Solar power installations hit record in Mass.

Hundreds of homeowners and large institutions and businesses, such as schools and big box stores, took advantage of government-backed incentives in 2012.

Arts

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Stage Review

Maurice Emmanuel Parent as the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Kami Rushell Smith as Camae in “The Mountaintop.’’

Going one-on-one with MLK in Katori Hall’s ‘The Mountaintop’

There are flashes of brilliance, but on balance Katori Hall’s play feels like the work of a talented young writer who’s throwing a lot of things against the wall to see what sticks.

Magazine

The cover for the January 13 2013 issue

Alfresco fabulous
The cover for the January 6 2013 issue

Best Boston Globe photos of the year, 2012
The cover for the December 23 2012 issue

Bostonians of the Year: Raisman and Harrison

The cover for the December 16 2012 issue

Best of the New: Diversions

Opinion

“The hunt for narrative is still what drives the media-league-university-agent-sponsor-industrial complex that is, by now, inextricable from the game itself.”

Joanna Weiss 

Ideas

“In places like Boston, boardinghouses were a key part of how 19th-century cities grew…and as Americans flock back into cities, they may offer some insights into where we’re going.”

Ruth Graham on the heyday of boardinghouses 

“We’re going to give our fans opportunities to do things they couldn’t do just sitting in their seat. Of course, that means more money for us.”

Fred Kirsch,  Patriots Vice President of content