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The al-Qaida leader turning up in the heart of a military city in Pakistan was no surprise to the people of India. It just reinforced Indians' belief that "Pakistan is complicit in global terrorism," says an Indian expert on the relationship.

If you poke around enough, you can find the story of saxophonist JD Allen's internal demons, and the way he's triumphed over them to start a family and a moderately stable career in jazz. For many, though, his band's short, sweet, swinging music is winning enough on its own.

Austra is a Toronto-based trio that makes throbbing, beat-heavy synth-pop that's both unsettling and alluring. Hear the group's dark but danceable new album in its entirety, a week before its official release.

A pop producer and a film composer write beautiful music together, with the help of guest vocalists Jack White and Norah Jones. Hear the fruits of their labor in full.

The decision last week by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to blast a levee in southeast Missouri has drawn criticism. When it comes to floods, actions by the Corps bring controversy.

The Los Angeles Lakers have won the last two NBA championships. They won't add to that this year. The Lakers were swept by the Dallas Mavericks in the second round of the playoffs.

Over the weekend, the Pentagon released video clips of Osama bin Laden. Steve Coll, author of The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century, talks to Renee Montagne about what the videos reveal about bin Laden.

Executives at a nuclear plant west of Tokyo say they will shut down the facility's three reactors. The Japanese government requested the closure. It's been surveying the country's 50 or so reactors, following the Fukushima disaster, to determine their vulnerability to earthquakes and tsunamis.

A popular game on Facebook — called Farmville — has turned tens of millions of people into Internet farmers. They plant crops, tend livestock and make other agricultural decisions. A website in the U.K. called MyFarm is allowing virtual farmers to get a taste of reality, by letting them help run a true brick-and-soil farm.