Foreign ministers from the world's leading industrialized nations are meeting Monday, with a certain pressure to advance ...

New Zealand is a whale stranding hotspot. It's often not clear why they happen but the island nation's geography is believed ...

The election was free of the anti-establishment fury that has vaulted populist outsiders to power elsewhere, like the United ...

A judge will decide Monday whether new evidence warrants a re-examination of the convictions of Erik and Lyle Menendez in the shotgun murders of their parents 30 years ago.

The Alpha Phi sorority and two members of Beta Alpha Omega have been charged after a student was found dead in a river after ...

NEW YORK — Chuck Woolery, the affable, smooth-talking game show host of "Wheel of Fortune," "Love Connection" and "Scrabble" ...

The Foldscope brings a powerful science tool to schools that can't afford microscopes. Scientists use it too. Its creators ...

The Icelandic pop star Björk's new installation at Centre Pompidou in Paris uses animal sounds to help people understand what ...

In Legacy of Lies, El Salvador 1981-1984, photojournalist Robert Nickelsberg documents how U.S. foreign policy fueled a ...

BEIRUT — An Israeli strike on a Lebanese army center on Sunday killed one soldier and wounded 18 others, the Lebanese ...

On-air challenge: Every answer today is the name of a famous person in which the first two letters of the first name are the ...

Fifty years ago, the discovery of a human ancestor "Lucy" generated worldwide attention. NPR's Scott Detrow speaks with paleoanthropologist Zeray Alemseged about the legacy of the discovery.