The nuclear-powered NR-1, launched in Groton in 1969, was one of the most secretive vessels in the U.S. undersea force. Five years after her retirement, the full extent of her missions may never be publicly known.

Francis Bacon’s painting ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ sold for a record $142,405,000 at Christie’s Auction House in New York on Tuesday. Christie’s says the work sold after six minutes of fierce bidding.

Survivors struggle in Tacloban, the Philippine city hit the hardest by the typhoon. Blocked roads are hampering relief efforts.