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Some parts of the province of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa have HIV rates that are more than twice the national average. And clinics in the region are seeing another major problem: thousands of cases yearly of multi-drug-resistant TB.

A power blackout recently disrupted electrical service across North India. While much of the area was without power, those who had generators went about their normal business. One generator company says business is so brisk because the state supply of energy is so weak.

The second law of thermodynamics is a kind of warning to cities and civilization. No matter how clever we are, disorder, waste and pollution will always follow from our work organizing societies into cities.

More than a decade after the U.S. charged into Afghanistan, American troops are still in the lead combat role. But with the U.S. military planning to withdraw by the end of 2014, the Americans now want to see Afghan troops at the forefront of the fighting.

Slab City is a 600-acre chunk of California desert on an abandoned WWII artillery training range, home to long time residents, newcomers and transients. There is no running water, no sewers, and no other comforts of modern day civilization, and the folks of Slab City like that just fine.

With the clock ticking down to the crucial South Carolina primary, a big-time lineup of evangelical leaders will gather in Texas on Friday in an effort to rally around one of their own. Here's a who's who.

British Ambassador to the U.S. Peter Westmacott talks to Steve Inskeep about what's likely to dominate the agenda as Prime Minister David Cameron visits Washington for talks with President Obama: Afghanistan.

Shin Dong-hyuk is the only person known to have been born in North Korea's prison camps and gotten out alive. Journalist Blaine Harden tells the story of Shin's daring escape.

Federal prosecutors in Charleston, W.Va., have filed the most serious criminal charges yet in the investigation of the April, 2010, coal mine explosion that left 29 mine workers dead.

When Moammar Gadhafi ruled Libya, no one imagined stepping foot in Bab al-Azizia, but now it's a reminder of his iron rule that is slowly being dismantled.