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The legendary athlete is declared the sole winner of the Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm — nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of amateurism rules.

University of Florida announced a search committee has unanimously recommended Nebraska GOP Sen. Ben Sasse as the lone finalist for the job.

The Wu-Tang Clan made just one copy of Once Upon A Time In Shaolin and sold it, shrouded in secrecy, for millions. Bloomberg Business reveals the buyer: a CEO infamous for a massive drug-price hike.

NPR's A Martínez speaks with Sonny Vaccaro and Armen Keteyian about their new book, Legends and Soles, The Memoir of An American Original.

Four out of every five AIDS patients in the world live in Africa -- most of them in South Africa. And most of them don't get anti-AIDS drugs which keep the disease in check. Doctors in South Africa usually have to wait for their patients to become seriously ill and then push for them to get into clinical trials of experimental drugs to get medicine to those patients. NPR's Brenda Wilson reports.

Host Bob Edwards talks with Chester Crocker, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs about U.S. policy toward Africa. The White House recently cancelled a trip to Africa that was scheduled for this month.

As part of National Geographic's Radio Expeditions, NPR's Alex Chadwick checks in on African ecologist Mike Fay. Fay just completed a treacherous conservation walk through Central Africa to the coast of Gabon.

Among the many films shown at this year's Cannes Film Festival, Africa: Open for Business stands out. The documentary profiles 10 businesses throughout Africa, ranging from a tiny cafe to a major flower exporter. Farai Chideya talks with the writer-director-producer, Carol Pineau.

NPR's Brenda Wilson has a special report on South Africa's explosive AIDS epidemic. The crisis is rooted in South Africa's history and the movement of its people. Labor migrations have occurred in South Africa since the beginning of the century. In the decade of the 1970's, under Apartheid, three-and-a-half-million black South Africans were forcibly relocated to rural homelands. The number of men who moved to industrial centers for work, living away from their wives and families for months at a time, significantly increased. Then, in the late 1980's, as white South Africans were being forced to relinquish political power, AIDS hit the country. Greater freedom for blacks brought an increase in travel between homelands and industrial centers and the AIDS epidemic moved with the people. Dependence on cheap, black labor and the removal of black South Africans to the homelands is continuing to drive the epidemic. A tenth of the population of South Africa is now infected with the AIDS virus.

NPR's Kenneth Walker in Johannesburg reports long-simmering differences within South Africa's ruling party burst into the open this week with allegations that three prominent members of the party were plotting to oust President Thabo Mbeki.