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The 30-year-old U.S. citizen was trying to smuggle 43 horned lizards and nine snakes in small bags into the United States, officials say.

A stampede Saturday at a church charity event in southern Nigeria left 31 people dead and seven injured at a program that aimed to offer hope to the needy.

A Jordanian military plane has landed in Beirut, the first since Israel shut the city's airport down with a series of bombings. The plane carried medical equipment and other humanitarian supplies. The aid is much needed in Lebanon, although Israel will not allow it to be delivered to areas identified as Hezbollah strongholds.

For the latest NPR/National Geographic Radio Expedition report, Elizabeth Arnold begins a journey to China's eastern Himalayas, near the border with Tibet, to profile a team of scientists studying the link between global warming and disappearing plant life high in the mountains.

In December 2005, a team of Indonesian, American and Australian scientists studied the mist-shrouded "lost world" atop the isolated Foja Mountains of New Guinea. What they found was a haven for rare wildlife and a host of new species.

Riley Baugus is a 41-year-old banjo player from North Carolina, and for him, music could have stopped a century ago. Using homemade banjos, he plays old-time music: the tunes from the Scots-Irish who settled and farmed in the southern Appalachians.

Richie Havens is the man who opened Woodstock, and he hasn't stopped performing or inspiring ever since. Here, the legendary folk singer and guitarist discusses his new album, Nobody Left to Crown.

Tom Brady could be guilty of one of the worst transgressions in sport — purposely defiling the part of the game that makes it fair and square.

According to a new study, fewer than 4% of producers making songs on the Billboard Top 100 last year were women — a number that hasn't changed much over the past decade.

Pakistan's supreme court has ruled that a move by the prime minister to dissolve parliament is illegal, ending a political crisis — for now.