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Weekend Edition Sunday host Liane Hansen has just returned from Egypt, and over the next few weeks, she will be filing stories on climate change. While in Alexandria, she visited the city's legendary library, where she discovered some fascinating artifacts.

Two college football bowl games will be played in San Diego, and that means much-needed tourist dollars for the region.

Actor Jeffrey Wright could watch Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now a million times. "It probably features the most effective narration of any film in the history of cinema," he says.

A 2009 survey found that insurance companies charged women up to 84 percent more than men for the same health insurance policy. The new health law is set to improve women's access to health care and even up the cost of health insurance.

In his latest book, British journalist William Dalrymple profiles nine Indian religious devotees — from a Jain nun, to an idol carver, to a Buddhist monk. Nine Lives surveys the subcontinent's rich religious topography by focusing on individual journeys of personal faith.

The Winter Olympics get under way Friday night in British Columbia, Canada — and it's a good thing the ceremony is inside, because the weather outside has been far from ideal for winter sports.

On his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, Mars traverses the pop landscape, pulling in far-flung influences and making them his own.

Algae is being used as a biofuel and now UC San Diego researchers are using the tiny organisms to produce medicines to treat cancer.

A road trip to highlight fuel cell cars gets underway this morning in Chula Vista. KPBS Environment Reporter Ed Joyce says the nine-day trek to Canada gives people a chance to drive or ride in the zero emission vehicles.

What is supposed to happen in 2012? Will the world end? Does it mark the dawn of a new age of consciousness? We speak to the author of "2012: Science & Prophecy of the Ancient Maya."