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Remittances — money sent home by migrants working abroad — add up to more than triple the amount of official foreign aid to developing countries. And that makes some people unhappy.

Federal prosecutors recently extradited a man from Singapore to face charges he helped conspire to evade export-control laws and send material that wound up in improvised explosive devices in Iraq.

Mexico City has its worst smog in more than a decade. The government has ordered cars off the street one day a week, but city planners say that isn't a long-term solution.

Steve Inskeep talks to Syrian doctor Rami Kalazi, who's in the city of Aleppo, about if the cessation of hostilities, that went into effect in February, has calmed things where he lives.

The health effects of being overweight can be serious and include diabetes and heart disease, but motivating yourself to go to the gym or put on that…

Three players made history, teaming up to record three aces on a single hole on the same day for the first time ever at the Masters.

A new study says that 69 percent of Chicago high school students earned D's or F's when retaking algebra on computers.

For the last five years, Libya has been trying to recover from its civil war. Renee Montagne talks to reporter Aidan Lewis of Reuters, who's in the capital Tripoli, about the U.N.-backed government.

Economist Nuria Chinchilla is trying to change Spain's sleep schedule. She tells NPR's Scott Simon about her efforts to get the government to align the workday with the rest of the world.

The challenges show religion is "on the minds of many people," says Deborah Caldwell Stone of the American Library Association. Another reason people objected to books was explicit sexual content.