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The 121-foot-high statue in one of the country's poorest areas was paid for by local businessmen and villagers.

Photographer Steve McCurry — he took the famous Afghan girl portrait for National Geographic — shares scenes from across the subcontinent in his new book.

After two years and over 2,500 deaths, the country's epidemic has officially ended, the World Health Organization says. Health groups will be watching to ensure the virus doesn't re-emerge.

The largest-ever prime number has been discovered at the University of Central Missouri. It breaks the previous record by almost 5 million digits.

Admirers and detractors paid their respects at the foot of the Supreme Court steps in Washington. They left flowers and candles and one left a copy of the U.S. Constitution.

Justice Antonin Scalia will lie in repose at the Supreme Court's Great Hall on Friday. Chief Justice William Rehnquist was the last to receive the honor in 2005.

Bernie Sanders impersonator Larry David hosted the episode with a cameo from the senator himself. Sanders slipped in a main campaign message, while David jabbed at the candidate's cantankerous side.

NPR's Scott Simon recalls the Cold War fears of his youth and wonders at how much has changed. The terror remains, but today it takes a starkly different form: surprise attacks on innocent civilians.

Fifty million students and teachers use free Google Apps for Education. A civil liberties organization says their data are being misused.

That's the longest span for one individual to excrete the live virus in history. It's not the norm, that's for certain. But how much of a concern is it in the war to wipe out polio?