The skull of a female Neanderthal, who lived about 50,000 years ago, is displayed at the Natural History Museum in London. Rick Findler/Barcroft Media/Landov hide caption
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A firefighter stands next to the radiation head which contained the stolen cobalt-60. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption
A photo released by Mexico's nuclear safety agency shows medical equipment containing radioactive source material. The photo was taken as the equipment was being prepared for loading into a truck, which was later stolen. CNSNS hide caption
A 2010 file photo shows Edgar "El Ponchis" Jimenez Lugo in the city of Cuernavaca, Mexico. The teenage U.S. citizen who acknowledged being a drug-cartel killer has finished his three year juvenile-offender term for homicide, kidnapping and drug and weapons possession. Antonio Sierra/AP hide caption
Rosarito, Mexico, near the U.S. border in the Mexican state of Baja California, is home to thousands of Americans who live there full or part time, many in properties with long-term leases. A proposed change to Mexican law would allow foreigners outright ownership of Mexican beachfront properties. Guillermo Arias/AP hide caption
A nurse treats a cholera patient at the Juan Pablo Pina Hospital in San Cristobal, Dominican Republic, in August. Health officials say that the strain of cholera circulating in the country— the same one that first appeared in Haiti three years ago — has also caused outbreaks in Cuba and now Mexico. Erika Santelices/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Rivkin (in red tie) leaves the Foreign Ministry in Paris after being summoned Monday following reports that the National Security Agency spied on French citizens. Thibault Camus/AP hide caption
Hurricane Raymond is seen at 2 p.m. ET Monday, in a photo provided by NOAA. The storm is threatening an area of Mexico that's still coping with the effects of last month's massive rains. NOAA/AP hide caption
Le Monde has the scoop on allegations about NSA spying on French phone calls. LeMonde.fr hide caption
Sister Antonia Brenner touches the statue of San Pablo Encandenado (St. Paul chained) outside the chapel at La Mesa State Penitentiary in Tijuana, Mexico, in 2005. Lenny Ignelzi/AP hide caption
People in a crowd flee as an out-of-control monster truck plows through spectators at a Mexican air show in the city of Chihuahua Saturday. Officials say they are investigating the incident, in which eight people died. AP hide caption
A car lays buried in mud after flooding triggered by Hurricane Manuel in Chilpancingo, Mexico. Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP hide caption
Near the town of Petaquillas, Mexico, a man held on to a line Wednesday as he crossed a stream swollen by rain dumped by the storm Manuel. Alejandrino Gonzalez/AP hide caption