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  • China Builds Museums ... But Will The Visitors Come?
    China is on a spree to build world-class museums and has opened about 100 of them annually in recent years. Two of the biggest opened on the same day last fall on opposite banks of Shanghai's Huangpu River. But filling these museums ? with both art and visitors ? is proving more challenging.
  • Court Backs Withholding 'Potent' Images Of Bin Laden's Body
    The government has argued that the classified images could spark violence against Americans abroad.
  • Socks Are Optional As Pakistan Grapples With Power Cuts
    You are a poor country with chronic power shortages. The summer is blazing hot. What do you do? In Pakistan, the prime minister has banned air conditioners in government offices ? but says it's OK for workers to go without socks.
  • Border Collies Protect Scientsts' Research From Geese
    Scientists in Canada were working at an experimental research farm, testing crops like corn and barley. But packs of Canada geese had been swooping in and destroying the crops. Two border collies were hired to chase away the geese.
  • Now's Your Chance To Own A Little Bit Of Gandhi
    The late Indian leader Mohandis Gandhi, who became known as Mahatma, or venerated one, had an appendectomy decades ago. Afterward, doctors took samples of his blood. Two microscope slides bearing that blood are being auctioned in London.
  • Young People Cast Out Of Italy's Welfare System
    In Italy, the youth jobless rate is nudging 40 percent, a record high in post-war history. Demographer Stefano Rosina says the Italian welfare system has always been skewed toward the middle-aged and elderly, leaving Italian youths with no political or trade union representation.
  • The Global Afterlife Of Your Donated Clothes
    The deadly collapse of a textile factory in Bangladesh has heightened awareness about cheap clothes. Many Americans have become used to inexpensive clothing, but the garments are also discarded at a remarkable rate: Billions of pounds of clothing are recycled each year; nearly half is exported.
  • British Aircraft Carrier HMS Ark Royal Heads For Scrap Yard
    The former Royal Navy flagship fell victim to a 2010 defense review that recommended scrapping the vessel and selling its Harrier jump jets.
  • An Ancient Religious Pilgrimage That Now Draws The Secular
    The 1,200-year-old European pilgrimage route known as the Way of St. James is undergoing a revival. Tens of thousands of people are walking across France to the Spanish coastal city of Santiago de Compostela, and the relics of St. James. Once a religious affair, it's now a cultural and social phenomenon as well.
  • Iran's 'Zahra' Tells Alternate Tale Of Presidential Campaign
    What do you do when you can't openly wage a campaign for the presidency? Some Iranians inside and outside the country have turned to the heroine of an online graphic novel who has embarked on a virtual campaign.
  • Former U.S. Ambassador: 'Don't Go In Blind' To Syria
    Robert Siegel talks with Ryan Crocker, former U.S. ambassador to both Iraq and Afghanistan, about how lessons learned in those conflicts could inform how the U.S. deals with Syria today. Crocker is now a fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale University.
  • White House Again Raises Possibility Of Closing Guantanamo
    President Obama is scheduled to give a major address on national security Thursday, and the Guantanamo Bay prison is expected to feature prominently. Obama had promised to shutter the facility when he first took office, but that has proven more difficult than he expected.
  • Pope Francis Puts The Poor Front And Center
    Shunning the formalities of his office and focusing on poverty, Pope Francis is drawing a sharp contrast between his 2-month-old papacy and those of his predecessors.
  • Beijing Angry Over North Korea's Seizure Of Chinese Fishermen
    North Korea's capture of a Chinese fishing boat and its crew of 16 has angered Beijing, adding to its concern over Pyongyang's recent provocations.
  • Life In Argentina's 'Little School' Prison Camp
    During Argentina's so-called Dirty War, thousands were abducted and taken to secret prisons like a place known as "the little school," where many were tortured and killed. Guest host Jennifer Ludden talks to a former prisoner, Alicia Partnoy, about her disappearance and her time there.
 
 
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