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Submit a video of you or your band playing one original song behind a desk — any desk will do — and you could win a chance to play your own Tiny Desk concert and tour the country with NPR Music.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with typography lecturer Stephen Banham of RMIT University about a new font he helped develop to assist people in remembering what they've read.

Muslim men could terminate their marriages by repeating "talaq," Arabic for "divorce," three times. The practice continued despite a Supreme Court rule outlawing it.

An anonymous affair.

Reinaldo Marcus Green's exquisite drama examines, from three perspectives, the aftermath of the slaying of an unarmed black man; the film offers "neither unalloyed despair nor implausible hope."

A researcher in Australia has invented a low-tech, insecticide-free trap that might be able to reduce bites from a particularly pesky mosquito in some neighborhoods.

Pakistan and India have gone to war over Kashmir before. Will it happen again?

Cleveland police officials are scouting out new sites for the horses serving in its mounted unit. Officials from the city’s capital projects office and police presented their preferred sites for new stables to city council’s safety committee this week. The 70-year-old stables they use are outdated, according to safety director Michael McGrath,

Conflict in Kashmir, protests in Hong Kong and treatments for Ebola dominated the global news this week.

In the nearly two years since Hurricane Maria, about half a million people still don't have a safe affordable home. One architect is working to change that.