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The search is on for heirloom varieties planted at homesteads and coach stops in the late 1800s. The resilient trees, still productive despite long neglect, could prove valuable at a time of drought.

Greg Constantine has spent 10 years documenting the world's stateless people. They live without passports, without ID cards, without dignity — but not without hope.

The Discworld series author had for years struggled with a rare form of early-onset Alzheimer's disease. Pratchett amassed a devoted following over four decades of writing — and dozens of novels.

Maybe she's not just hungry. One scientist thinks the chubby bundles have a more devious plan up their onesies: Making a mom exhausted delays the arrival of another brother or sister.

In what is being called the deadliest U.S. wildfire in at least 30 years, 19 firefighters died in Arizona Sunday after an out-of-control blaze trapped them. They had been forced to use temporary shelters in an attempt to survive.

President Obama's health care law has so far survived challenges in Congress and the courts. But its biggest test could begin next week. That's when the online marketplaces offering health care coverage to the uninsured are set to start signing people up. The question is, will they come?

The tropical virus has killed a man who returned to New Jersey from Liberia earlier this month. But chances that he could have spread the disease are remote.

The new film tells the story of Agu, a young boy in an unnamed African country, who is conscripted into a regiment of child soldiers led by a coldblooded commandant played by Idris Elba.

The author and critic died Friday of injuries sustained in a car accident. For years, he was the voice of NPR's literature commentary — and, for many, the "guide to a very exciting world."

They were found Sunday at the Lost Valley Boy Scouts Camp, but the husband had died. The wife was severely dehydrated and airlifted to a hospital.