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NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Sharon Horgan, creator and star of Bad Sisters, about the show's second season.

In a southern Kazakh city, health-care workers are standing trial on charges of negligence. At least 95 infants tested positive for HIV after treatment at local children's hospitals. The case has exposed corruption in the country's medical system.

A vodka tasting event is planned for Thursday to raise money for the Vladimir-Canterbury sister cities program. Dave Thomas of Illinois State University's…

Yaa Gyasi's debut novel follows the family lines of two separated half-sisters in 18th-century Ghana: One is married off to an Englishman, while the other is sent to America and sold into slavery.

Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson was born in rural Ethiopia, adopted and then raised in Sweden. As a black chef, he was conscious of breaking through the racial barrier. The heat in the kitchen never let up. "Through that process of being yelled at in German, French and English and Swedish, I learned a lot," he says.

Commentator Bill Langworthy helps to get his nephew, Thomas, into a highly competitive Manhattan pre-school.

Each twin had an ovary removed and frozen in 2009, when they were in their 30s, in hopes of buying more time to get pregnant and have babies. But will the thawed, reimplanted ovaries work?

Christina Nance had been missing since Sept. 25, her family says. Video footage from that day shows her entering the van, which was in a police parking lot. Her body was found 12 days later.

After being transplanted from a vibrant city life to the isolation of a small town, NPR listener and USA Weekend reader Ruth Kamps found solace in nature and inspiration in the pine tree growing outside her kitchen window.

For some people, Feb. 14 is not all hearts and candy. Without a sweetheart, the holiday can be dreary. For those not in love this year, author Alex Gilvarry prescribes three books that will cure the worst of those Valentine's Day blues.