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Although the Russians claim a cease-fire is in place, Russian military vehicles and troops are still very active in Georgia. Ivan Watson reports from the ground in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia.

Reporter John Otis catches up with one Colombian mayor who faces so many threats from criminal groups — that he's been forced to govern — largely from exile.

Crowds of Iraqis descend on the passport office in Baghdad, demanding documents to travel abroad. Many are upset that bureaucrats representing the new interim government are not doing a quicker job of issuing the documents. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

Widespread violence in Iraq is forcing hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to flee Fallujah. The people who remain are caught in the crossfire between U.S. troops and insurgents. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

The African nation of Mali has long claimed it gave birth to the blues. Renee Montagne reports that the country's musical tradition was threatened this past year when Islamist militants took over the deserts of northern Mali and banned music.

As a multibillion-dollar environmental effort gets underway, the state has to figure out what the landscape used to look like. Ninety-seven percent of the original wetlands in the inland delta near the San Francisco Bay are gone, so California is turning to historians for help.

New tenants wanted: must be quiet during the day, must enjoy bugs. It might not sound like your kind of real estate, but then, you’re not a bat.A new…

Forget Big Brother and Real Housewives. Local governments and nonprofits are starting to capitalize on our unquenchable thirst for reality programming — in the form of bird nest cams.

Communication breakdowns can be fatal for firefighters, but are all too easy when crews are shrouded in smoke and a blaze is moving fast. Florida, with its millions of acres of forest and grassland, has rolled out a new system that can pinpoint crews without relying on voice communication.

Mitt Romney unveiled his plan Thursday to eliminate North America's dependence on foreign energy by 2020. The plan would end subsidies for renewable energy sources and instead rely heavily on fossil fuels from the U.S., Mexico and Canada. Not discussed were the immediate or long-term effects on climate change.