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The Tropics are Coming Alive, but There are No Immediate Threats

The National Hurricane Center is monitoring two tropical waves for potential development, but neither are a significant or direct threat to Florida over...

Liberia Dispatches 2: Matilda Newport

NPR's Jordana Hochman is travelling through Liberia and is sending in dispatches from her trip. Today, the lasting tension between native Liberians and the Americo-Liberians, those descended from freed slaves who settled there in the 19th century.

Armitage Was Source of Plame Leak, Book Says

A forthcoming book by journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn suggests that Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State in 2003, may be the missing link in the story that has been called "Plamegate."

An Immigrant's First American Christmas: Congolese Diary

Joshua Dimina, a refugee from the Republic of Congo, is spending his first Christmas in the United States. He talks about what it's like to be alone in a new country, after he was forced to leave behind a profession and a son.

Impatient with the pace of government work, some in Peuken Bada have begun building modest homes on the foundations of homes destroyed by tsunami.

Indonesians Frustrated by Slow Rebuilding

Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono meets with President Bush this week. As the two leaders discuss economic reform and human rights in Indonesia, efforts to rebuild areas devastated by a tsunami at the end of 2004 continue.

Ibrahim Magu is a Nigerian investigator looking into allegations of corruption that surround the construction of a LNG plant in the country. His office is drowning in paperwork related to his work. He let NPR's Steve Inskeep read key documents there.

Corruption Clouds Nigeria's Growing Gas Business

Nigeria's next big product may be something it has been burning off for years: natural gas. But in the rush to build a natural gas infrastructure, Nigeria's well-earned reputation for corruption may have touched some American companies.

Tropical depression in Atlantic likely by mid-week

Four areas of tropical development are now being monitored in the Atlantic basin. The most concerning is a large area of low pressure over the central parts where organization into a tropical depression is likely by the middle of the week.

Mamadou Niang at his home in Gandiol, Senegal, on Oct. 6. Mamadou's father worked their family farmland until he died in 2006, and Mamadou would have liked to follow in his footsteps. But he can't, he says, because rising seas are pushing salt water into the fields.

He has attempted the journey to Europe three times, and refuses to give up

Mamadou Niang has decided he has no choice but to leave his native Senegal. Salinization has made it impossible to farm his family's land.

Charity leader Ngozi Fulani (center left) attends a reception held by Britain's Camilla, the queen consort, (center) to raise awareness of violence against women and girls in Buckingham Palace in London on Tuesday.

A member of the Buckingham Palace household resigns after racial comments

An honorary member of the royal household has resigned after repeatedly asking a Black woman who runs a charity for survivors of domestic abuse what country she came from.

John Huston, Hollywood's Human Element

Filmmaker John Huston -- born 100 years ago Saturday, on Aug. 5, 1906 -- made some of cinema's most enduring classics, among them The Maltese Falcon and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

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