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In the early 1990s, NPR journalist Scott Simon reported from war-torn Sarajevo. Those experiences formed the basis for his debut novel, Pretty Birds, the story of a 16-year-old girl who adapts to her violent times.

Trombone Shorty's new album "Lifted" comes on the heels of the artist's first Grammy.

Sure it's seasonal work, but the pay can be pretty good for a mall Santa, especially if the beard is real. Some of the men who play the role for children at stores even take their month-long job so seriously that they give it year-round attention. NPR's Scott Horsley reports.

Across the U.S., the number of homicides in the past decade has declined, but prosecutors say it remains difficult to obtain murder convictions. With witnesses often reluctant to come forward, officials in Maryland are finding new ways to combat the problem. NPR's Jennifer Ludden reports.

Rickety vehicles ply Route 312, which parallels the old Silk Road, carrying traders who deal in cell phones rather than silk and spices. NPR's Rob Gifford continues his 3,000-mile journey across China with a bus ride through the Gobi Desert.

As he continues his westward trek across China, NPR's Rob Gifford enters the rural heartland. Twenty-five years after free-market reforms were launched, farmers still use water buffalo and wooden plows to till the land, and life is marked by high taxes and local-government corruption.

Not long ago, Manon Martin was an accountant in Seattle, balancing books and analyzing financial data. But those days are over for Martin, who decided to exchange that career for a new one -- in belly dancing.

Black smoke poured from the Sistine Chapel's chimney Monday evening, signaling that the cardinals sequestered inside for the first papal conclave of the new millennium failed to elect a new pope.

A new report by the U.S. Forest Service finds that the agency didn't account for the ways climate change has altered the conditions and the landscape when it set a prescribed burn in the national forest in April.

Go-Go is dance music with beats meant to get bodies moving, and a texture built on the call and response with the crowd. The Go-Go creator, Chuck Brown, has a new CD called We're About the Business.