Smithfield Foods could be one of the year's biggest U.S. initial public offerings, with the pork producer planning to raise as much as $940 million as it returns to the stock market.

Moving, surprising, inspiring, terrifying, shocking... This is a selection of images from our planet, over the past week.

Stewart Rhodes, with his signature black eyepatch, waved to a crowd as he strolled out of a federal prison a free man after ...