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There are a record number of candidates of South Asian descent running for prominent offices across the country. Most notably is Nikki Haley for governor of South Carolina, and six candidates are running for congressional seats. Commentator Sandip Roy looks at the different ways some of these candidates are expressing their ethnicity.

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"Bonking" or "hitting the wall" is that awful moment when marathoners run out of gas. They've used up all of the carbohydrate fuel stored in their liver and muscles, and their bodies are forced to switch, painfully, to burning fat. Now a marathoning Harvard-MIT student has figured out how to calculate that point.

NATO has suspended some joint operations and training with the Afghan Army and police. While the suspension is temporary, it raises serious questions about the role of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, and whether or not Afghans will be ready to take control of their own security in 2014.

It's time to get eclectic this Culture Lust Weekend. Between Berlin comedy-rockers Die Roten Punkte, dance parties on San Diego's trolleys and strolling the Adams Avenue Street Fair, you'll have your proverbial plate full.

Tourists on a North Carolina vacation destination island were ordered to board the ferries and head for the mainland Wednesday and more evacuations could be on the way as powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the East Coast.

This is the third report in a four-part series on adult education.

The rescue effort in China has turned toward helping those who survived Monday's earthquake and retrieving bodies from the rubble. Now, the safety of the area's dams is in question — in particular, Zipingdu dam, a staging point for relief efforts that is upstream from a city of a half-million people.

In his new book, conductor John Eliot Gardiner searches for clues to uncover what the great composer's life and personality were really like. He finds a man full of contradictions and unfathomable music — even "a great guy to go out and have a beer with."

Libya's rebel forces edged closer to Moammar Gadhafi's hometown of Sirte, the gateway to the western half of the country. Backed by U.N.-approved international airstrikes, the rebels have regained nearly all the territory they lost in the past week.