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A priest prays before a Mass celebrated by Pope Benedict XVI at the Cuatro Vientos air base outside Madrid during World Youth Day festivities in August 2011. The Catholic Church is hoping to provide an attractive option for young job seekers in Spain, which is suffering from unprecedented unemployment.

In Spain, The Church Offers More Than Salvation

Spain has Europe's highest jobless rate, but the Catholic Church is still hiring. A group of Spanish bishops has produced a recruitment video as they seek to boost the dwindling numbers of priests. And it appears to be having some initial success.

Cranes, ships and other rescue equipment are on the scene off the southern coast of South Korea, where a ferry capsized Wednesday. About 270 people, most of them high school students, remain missing.

As Rescue Efforts Continue, Korean Ferry Sinks Below Surface

More than three days after the ferry capsized, nearly 270 of those who were on board remained missing. Most of them are high school students. Cranes will try to lift the ship, which is now submerged.

FDA Cracks Down On Fake Ebola Cures Sold Online

The Food and Drug Administration has issued warning letters to companies marketing products claimed to be cures for Ebola. One firm says it will drop such claims — but it's still selling the product.

HAPPY

Airs Saturday, June 7, 2014 at 8 p.m. & Sunday, June 8 at 7 a.m. on KPBS TV

"I think it's a terrible critical sin to try to be different," says Robert Christgau, whose memoir <em>Going into the City </em>is a look back at his five decades of music writing.<em></em>

Robert Christgau Reviews His Own Life

One of rock music's most loved, feared and prolific scribes, the 72-year-old Christgau says he knew early on that he liked criticism better than journalism: "I didn't want to get into people's faces."

Photo of rainforest in Brazil. FRONTLINE/World journeys to the remote rainforests of Brazil, where several American companies have been on the hunt for an increasingly valuable new commodity -- carbon. But investing in big tracts of forest in order to soak up the carbon they may have to account for in proposed energy legislation is not without its costs.

FRONTLINE/World: The Carbon Hunters

Airs Friday, October 8, 2010 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

Comedian Jesse Appell performs at a club in Beijing. Appell won a scholarship in 2012 to study comedy in China and has been performing on the country's small but growing stand-up comedy circuit.

So An American Comic Walks Into A Chinese Bar ...

American comics are taking the stage in China's small but growing stand-up comedy circuit. Their bi-cultural, and often bilingual, shows are a new form of cultural exchange.

Events: Paula Poundstone And Biking Through Tijuana

A bike ride through Tijuana, Paula Poundstone and a celebration of the written word, are part of the eclectic mix of things to do this weekend in San Diego.

The Yes Men (Mike Bonanno and Andy Bichlbaum) are the keynote speakers at the San Diego Museum of Art's event "36 Hours of the Summer Salon Series."

San Diego Museum Of Art Wants You To Spend The Night

What happens at 2 am inside a museum? This is your weekend to find out.

Ex-Camp Pendleton Marine Gets 6 Years In DUI Death

A former Camp Pendleton Marine who was drunk when he crashed a sports car on a rain-slick road early on St. Patrick's Day, killing a fellow serviceman, was sentenced today to six years in state prison.

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