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The U.S. military is working with the U.S. Agency for International Development to deliver vitally needed aid to remote areas devastated by the recent earthquake in Haiti.

In 2015, a first edition copy of Gabriel García Márquez's classic was stolen from a Bogota book fair. Many cases in that city go unsolved, but local law enforcement went all out to find the book.

A box of photos discovered more than 30 years ago includes pictures of an internment camp and many who died at Auschwitz. The photos were recently reunited with the Jewish family they belong to.

Influenced by both The Sopranos and Marcel Proust, Jennifer Egan takes her readers on a swirling, playful ride through time in A Visit from the Goon Squad, a novel of linked short stories — including one told as a PowerPoint presentation — that defies categorization.

Conservators, preservationists, artists, art historians and serious art fans can consult the Harvard Art Museums' collection to analyze and imitate the colors that painters used many centuries ago.

The series uses simple language and fanciful adventures to introduce kids to literature, history and science. Author Mary Pope Osborne has visited some 1,800 schools, giving away her books to kids.

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf tried to fire his country's chief justice. Musharraf claimed he did that because of misconduct allegations. Many thought it was really because the judge might complicate Musharraf's plans to be elected president while remaining head of the army. For the U.S., it means a main ally in the war on terror is in trouble.

In India's capital New Delhi, many impoverished people spend their days picking through garbage — looking for anything that can be recycled and sold. But now there is competition. A battle between rag pickers and new corporate "waste managers" is raging over the trash of the affluent.

A new push by the Trump administration for more coal production is getting mixed reviews in West Virginia, where the majority of electricity is produced by coal and expensive for many residents.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with researcher James Penca about two new discoveries in the wreck of the Titanic: a statue experts thought lost, and the collapse of an iconic part of the ship.