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After less than two years, Tony Abbott's often contentious term came to a sharp end. His own Liberal Party voted to replace him with the more moderate Malcolm Turnbull.

The new book by surgeon Dana Suskind, Thirty Million Words: Building A Child's Brain, explores the importance of constantly talking to our kids, even when they're too young to talk back.

Patrick DeWitt, a former barback, once saw his hopes for a writing career teeter on a trash can's edge. Now an acclaimed author, he's dissecting folk tales in his newest novel, Undermajordomo Minor.

Author Patrick DeWitt knows well how to mine delight from despair. But his distinctive dark humor gathers a few rays of light in Undermajordomo Minor -- a scrambled folk tale that keeps a quick pace.

The 2014 National Medals of Arts and the National Humanities Medals was awarded in tandem Thursday to 21 of the most renowned U.S. artists and patrons. Among the winners was Stephen King.

Intel has been the corporate sponsor of the Science Talent Search since 1998. This year the company gave out more than $1 million in prize money.

In her memoir, Negroland, Margo Jefferson describes growing up black and affluent in 1950s Chicago. Jefferson tells Fresh Air it was a world of sophistication — and snobbery.

Tribune Publishing Co., parent of the San Diego Union-Tribune and Los Angeles Times, has fired Austin Beutner, the Los Angeles civic leader and former Wall Street investment banker who became publisher and chief executive of the paper last year.

Competitors came from around the world to San Diego this weekend to shape and scrape temporary works of art during the U.S. Sand Sculpting Challenge.

In some countries, parents don't send daughters to school. The obstacle can be tuition fees of, say, $300 a year. But a coal miner's daughter has found a way to bring 1.4 million girls to class.