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Pakistanis along with international and local media gather outside the compound in the city of Abbottabad where Osama bin Laden was killed during a raid by U.S. special operations forces.

Al-Qaida's Paper Trail: A 'Treasure Trove' For U.S.

From its earliest days, al-Qaida leaders insisted on receipts for everything from floppy disks to explosives. That obsession with record-keeping has come back to haunt the organization.

Protesters gathered Monday outside the Graham, Putnam, and Mahoney Funeral Parlors in Worcester, Mass., where the body of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev is being prepared for burial.

In Boston, A Rare Rejection Of The Dead

Tamerlan Tsarnaev is stuck in a no-man's land.

For Giving Tuesday: A Guide To Gifts That Give Back

Boots from a Guatemalan village. A basket woven in Rwanda. Kenyan soda cans that became cool cuffs. Money spent on these and other items provides a better life for artisans in the developing world.

A destroyed apartment building in Tawargha, south of the Libyan coastal city of Misrata. Rebels from Misrata destroyed Tawargha, accusing residents of supporting Moammar Gadhafi and committing atrocities.

After Libya's War, Acts Of Vengeance

The rebels of Misrata earned a reputation as some of the toughest fighters in the battle to oust Moammar Gadhafi last year. What the rebels did after Gadhafi's was gone is not nearly so well known.

Scott Farm in Dummerston, Vt., grows 100 varieties of apples, including Hubbardston Nonesuch and Cortland, above. You can't perpetuate a variety of apple by planting it from seed: You have to collect cuttings and graft them to root stock.

Keeping Heirloom Apples Alive Is 'Like A Chain Letter' Over Many Centuries

Scott Farm in Vermont grows 100 apple varieties, some of them dating back to the 1700s. These apples may not look as pretty as the Red Delicious, but what they lack in looks they make up for in taste.

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton takes the stage on the final night of the Democratic National Convention.

FACT CHECK: Hillary Clinton's Speech To The Democratic Convention, Annotated

NPR's politics team has annotated Clinton's speech, providing analysis and context and fact-checking key portions.

Sen. Rand Paul meets with local Republicans in Hiawatha, Iowa. He's made three trips to the state this year.

A New Brand Of Paul Gains Support In Iowa

Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul has already made significant inroads in Iowa as he explores a presidential bid. Supporters say it's because he builds on his father's work but stays his own person.

Paul Greenberg says the decline of local fish markets, and the resulting sequestration of seafood to a corner of our supermarkets, has contributed to "the facelessness and comodification of seafood."

'The Great Fish Swap': How America Is Downgrading Its Seafood Supply

One-third of the seafood Americans catch is sold abroad, but most of the seafood we eat here is imported and often of lower quality. Why? Author Paul Greenberg says it has to do with American tastes.

A monkey sits on a car and eats an orange snatched from a fruit vendor in New Delhi in 2012. The city has tried numerous schemes to bring its large and rambunctious monkey population under control. Now it is employing men to mimic the calls of the aggressive langur monkey.

It's Bananas: India Hires 'Monkey Mimics' To Scare Away Real Ones

New Delhi has tried countless schemes to control rambunctious monkeys. The latest: 40 men roam the streets, mimicking the call of the menacing langur monkey in an attempt to scare off other monkeys.

An Al Qaeda police force on the back of a pickup truck prepares to go on patrol in town of Azzan, Yemen.

FRONTLINE: Al Qaeda In Yemen

Airs Friday, June 1, 2012 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

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