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Both Lennie Tristano and Herbie Nichols were active on the New York scene in the 1950s. Though worlds apart stylistically, their music demonstrates how the piano accommodates myriad personalities.

A writer shares how his wife's journey with cancer prepared them both to adapt during this unpredictable and chaotic time.

Woods is starting to show renewed spark in his golf game. He seems to have found his game again Sunday after a five-year winless streak.

As Syria's President Assad continues the deadly opposition in his country, the U.S. is strangely absent despite American morals and political interest. Leon Wieseltier of The New Republic warns that the new Middle East may no longer recognize the U.S.

As his national profile has risen, the first-term senator from Florida has become a target for Democrats and advocacy groups who say he doesn't represent Latino voters. In Miami last week, a dozen young Hispanic men and women gathered outside Rubio's office chanting, "Rubio: Latino or Tea Partino?"

When Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya, no one imagined stepping foot in Bab al-Azizia, but now it's a reminder of his iron rule that is slowly being dismantled.

Iraq recently celebrated a victory against the Islamic State in Ramadi, a city just 70 miles west of Baghdad. But NPR's Alice Fordham went there and found there's still heavy fighting.

Teenagers are an overlooked group when it comes to global health. A new report offers often surprising insights into the threats to their health and well-being.

The World Organisation For Animal Health has adopted its first standards to provide good care for equines — part of a broad agenda at its just-concluded powwow.

For decades, New Zealand has tried to reduce the populations of destructive, non-native predators. Now the country has a more ambitious goal: eliminating invasive rats, stoats and possums by 2050.