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Crowds were celebrating France's Independence Day in the seaside city of Nice, when a speeding truck plowed into the festivities. Time magazine reporter Vivienne Walt says the crowd was dazed.

The air quality level in China's capital, already famously poor, literally went off the charts on Saturday. Officials are warning people to stay indoors.

Thousands of Tunisians took to the streets to protest the assassination of the country's leading — and secular — opposition figure.

Governor Matt Bevin declared a statewide emergency on Friday in response to the severe weather across the commonwealth earlier this week. Tornado, wind…

The number fell below expectations from economists, but the report showed that wages rose 2.5 percent from a year earlier.

A team of scientists has found a way to listen in on the strange sounds produced by a single cell. The UCLA researchers say what they hear may be the sounds of tiny molecular motors moving things around inside the cell. NPR's David Kestenbaum reports.

The New England Patriots and Philadelphia Eagles play for the NFL championship on Sunday in Jacksonville, Fla. But Super Bowl XXXIX has already begun for reporters. Hundreds showed up for Media Day, an event where every question is fair game --football-related or not.

Billy Bang's story is not unusual for an urban teen of the 1960s. He was drafted after high school and sent to Vietnam. But the jazz violinist has turned his war experience into one of the most remarkable albums of 2003, says Howard Mandel in a report for Weekend Edition Saturday.

A group of international fossil hunters are reporting a discovery in South America that has them rubbing their eyes in disbelief. They've uncovered a skeleton of a rodent that was bigger than a human. Despite its size, some say the animal was more cuddly than fierce. Hear NPR's Christopher Joyce.

The Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug intended to make healthy, short children taller. The drug -- growth hormone -- has long been used to boost the height of children who are small due to medical problems. Critics charge that giving the drug to healthy children is unwise. NPR offers a three-part report.