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The head of the National Education Association says the Every Student Succeeds Act is good for students, schools and educators.

The story said Santa Claus was born in 1788 in a northern Norwegian city and that a funeral was set for a chapel at the North Pole. The newspaper has apologized and says printing the ad was a mistake.

Too often the developing world is depicted as a place of poverty and suffering. Photos from the contest offer a different vision.

The 11-year-old Princess Catharina-Amalia, Princess of Orange, is just an ordinary kid.

Hurricanes, a hydrogen bomb and hoax accounts all made news around the world this week.

Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson talks with Hugh Riley of the Caribbean Tourism Organization, a development agency representing all 28 Caribbean countries.

Your phone rings--it looks like your neighbor's calling. But instead, it's the creepiest scam of the year.

The Defense Department investigates the contents of a trailer it says may have been used as a mobile biological weapons lab. A U.S. official says the trailer, recovered April 19 near the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, has all the equipment of a lab, but that preliminary tests have not turned up any evidence of banned biological agents. Hear NPR's Eric Westervelt.

In a stunning reversal of fortune, it now seems likely that Pluto will lose its title of planet. Scientists meeting in Prague were presented with a new definition of the word "planet" last week, which would have included Pluto as a planet. But the proposal met with fierce protests. Opponents say there are hundreds of objects like Pluto.

President Bush fires a rhetorical broadside at an al Qaeda leader who aimed videotaped threats at the United States and Great Britain. After al Qaeda's No. 2 leader, Ayman al-Zawahri, released a statement, Bush vowed to continue the mission in Iraq until it is complete.