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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that the war between the Sudanese military and a powerful paramilitary force is likely to destabilize the entire region.

The death of Jordanian-born al-Qaida leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in an air raid wasn't the only big news from Iraq on Thursday. Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced that he has filled the important posts of interior and defense ministers in his new government. Madeleine Brand talks with Jamie Tarabay, reporting from Baghdad.

The magnificent tree is the size of a city block, the product of doting efforts by the Lahaina's residents. Aerial footage shows the tree charred but still standing amid a downtown devastated by fire.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Brahim el Guabli, associate professor of Arabic Studies at Williams College, about the earthquake's impacts on rural indigenous communities in Morocco.

President-elect Barack Obama has named Arne Duncan of Chicago as his secretary of Education, drafting a fellow Chicagoan who has been associated with innovations in that city's troubled schools. Obama said Duncan was a "hands-on" practitioner of school reform.

As the back end of the storm approaches the Gulf Coast, reporter Pat Dowell, a resident of Baytown, Texas talks with host Scott Simon about the situation near Galveston. She lives close to the Exxon oil refinery, one of the largest in the U.S.

The Senate took a key test vote Tuesday on voting rights for Washington, D.C. All indications are that after a 30-year campaign with repeated setbacks, Congress is poised to pass a bill giving Washington a full seat in the House of Representatives.

Hurricane Idalia walloped Perry when it stormed ashore with 125 mph winds on Wednesday. People in the city are just now trying to pick up pieces and sort out how to move forward.

A new World War II museum just opened in the Polish city of Gdansk. But the populist Polish government wants to take over the museum and reshape its exhibits to fit a narrower, more flattering view.

Civilians in villages near the front lines in Eastern Ukraine are being forced to leave their homes as fighting intensifies between Government forces and Russian-back separatists.