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In the story "The Mole and the Sun," Mole's mother is sick. A medical seer tells him she will recover if his friend Ya Sun can orbit the earth in the opposite direction that it's rotating. The sobering moral is that you can't go against the rules of nature.

Magical Photos Bring Fables From Mbomo To Life

The fables were gathered from people in the Congo Basin and illustrated with a touch of magical realism in the new book Congo Tales: Told By The People Of Mbomo.

André Previn in London in 1979. Previn died Thursday in Manhattan, at the age of 89.

André Previn, Musical Polymath, Has Died At Age 89

André Previn died Thursday morning in Manhattan. He was a composer of Oscar-winning film music, conductor, pianist and music director of major orchestras.

A photo from a 2018 production of "The Phantom of the Opera."

San Diego's Top Weekend Events: From 'Phantom' To Festivals

A favorite musical returns. Plus, there’s free music in Carlsbad and a day of books at Liberty Station.

Firemen leave the building of Wednesday's raid on an apartment in Paris suburb Saint-Denis, Thursday Nov.19, 2015.

Third Body Found In Paris-Area Raid

A woman has been named as one of the three people killed in Wednesday's police raid that left the alleged orchestrator of the Paris attacks dead.

Future President George Washington is depicted at the U.S. Constitutional Convention. The country's founders foresaw the threat of foreign interference in our elections.

Fear of Foreign Interference in U.S. Elections Dates from Nation's Founding

The comments of President Trump regarding foreign governments offering negative information about a political rival have renewed fears as old as the republic itself.

A protester chants slogans against the Iranian government outside the European Union Council in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday.

Here's What Makes Iran's Anti-Regime Protests Different This Time

The scholar Farideh Farhi examines why this fresh round of Iranian unrest is unlike the others.

Salvador Dalí's idea for a Marx Brothers movie was never made — but it's been resurrected as a graphic novel.

Salvador Dalí Meets The Marx Brothers In 'Giraffes On Horseback Salad'

Salvador Dalí's friendship with Harpo Marx led him to write a Marx Brothers movie treatment, Giraffes on Horseback Salad. Studio head Louis B. Mayer killed it, but it lives again as a graphic novel.

"We go into parenting expecting something like parity ... but it doesn't manifest," says psychologist Darcy Lockman. "Our expectations are really not being met and that leads to a lot of anger."

'All The Rage' Isn't About Moms Having It All — It's About Moms Doing It All

Psychologist Darcy Lockman says there's been progress since the 1950s, but equal partnerships are a long way off. Her book All the Rage explores uneven distribution of childcare and domestic labor.

Sea ice is seen from NASA's Operation IceBridge research aircraft off the northwest coast of Greenland in March 2017. A new report says rapid warming over the past three decades has led to a 95 percent decline of the Arctic's oldest and thickest ice.

Arctic Report Card Documents 'Cascading Effects' Of Warming Ocean Temperatures

The U.S. government says warming ocean temperatures and melting ice have resulted in the "most unprecedented transition in history" in the Arctic, leading to extreme weather events across the globe.

The smokestack of a factory on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, on Sunday.

India Ratifies Paris Climate Change Agreement

Sixty-two countries have now joined the plan. Together, they account for about 52 percent of global emissions, which is a little short of the 55 percent threshold to make the agreement binding.

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