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When Ronald Harwood was asked to write the screen adaptation of Jean Dominique Bauby's memoir The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, he says he was initially filled with terror. He couldn't imagine how to adapt the story of a man who's completely trapped inside himself except for the use of one eye.

The U.S. had previously suspended foreign assistance to the country following the military coup. The State Department called for an immediate return to civil rule.

Roy Choi changed the food truck fad forever when he and his friend started selling Korean barbecue tacos outside clubs in Los Angeles. He talks about his life and his food truck foundations in his new book, L.A. Son: My Life, My City, My Food.

After six months of anti-government protests and the ouster of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, the army says it is needed to "keep peace and order."

Jordan's monarch is in Washington this week, pressing the cause of Middle East talks this year. He is fearful a delay will embolden extremists in the region, and he also warns that a quick withdrawal from Iraq could be dangerous.

Explosions and gunfire rocked an anti-government protest in Bangkok, Thai officials say.

On Morning Edition today, not only did I learn that caterpillars can remember things even after their brains get scrambled during metamorphosis, but now I know they don't always become butterflies! Halfway through the feature on

Charles Darwin is known as the father of evolution. But another British naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, played a major role in developing the theory of natural selection before fading into obscurity. A trip to what's now Sulawesi in Indonesia, and the unique animals he found there, helped form his seminal ideas.

It's not clear whether the opposition, whose boycott of February elections caused the vote to be invalidated, will participate in the new balloting, set for July.

Imagine having a revolutionary idea, and then sitting on it for more than 20 years. That's what Charles Darwin did. His theory that nature — not God — was responsible for the marvelous variety of life on Earth was heretical. But then a young butterfly collector forced Darwin's hand.