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May is the month when teachers win awards and have their appreciation week, but tight budgets and campaigns against public employees have lots of teachers feeling anything but appreciated. NPR's Matt Colburn reports.

Whitewater cascaded through the gate of the Morganza Floodway in Louisiana Sunday, part of an emergency effort to save Baton Rouge and New Orleans from the rising Mississippi River.

Israeli soldiers opened fire Sunday on Arab protesters along the country's borders, killing at least 16 people and wounding dozens in an unprecedented wave of demonstrations marking a Palestinian day of mourning for their defeat at Israel's hands in 1948.

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was widely expected to be the presidential candidate of France's Socialist Party a year from now, was already a frontrunner in opinion polls. On Saturday, New York police pulled him off a plane headed to Paris and accused him of sexually assaulting a hotel maid.

In their new book, Chasing Aphrodite, journalists Jason Felch and Ralph Frammolino tell the story of dozens of illicitly acquired antiquities at one of the world's wealthiest museums. The J. Paul Getty Museum of Los Angeles ended up returning 40 looted objects — including the goddess of love.

The "Diplomatic Softball League" begins it 2011 season Saturday, April 30th. The softball league has been around for over a decade in Berlin and has 16 nationalities represented. Though begun by mostly expats from the American and Canadian embassies, the league's commissioner Sheldon Eisenhower, says it's a very "multi-kulti affair."

The Berlin Senate has chosen a winner for the Templehof design competition. Included in the winning design is a 60 meter high "mountain," climbing walls, water features, and an exhibition pavilion. Not all are pleased with the outcome of the contest.

Using data they bought from a maker of GPS navigators, Dutch police set up speed cameras where drivers were most likely to break the limit.

Despite initial reservations, President Obama is now ready to move forward with two of the three trade agreements he inherited from the Bush administration. The deals with South Korea and Panama are "solid," says an administration official. But the third pact — with Colombia — has hit some stumbling blocks.

With gas prices mounting in recent weeks — in some states, they top $4 a gallon — the large tax breaks offered to oil and gas producers are falling under tighter scrutiny from Washington.