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Fifteen years ago, Egypt's Hosni Mubarak embarked on a grand project to cultivate farmland in the desert and create new towns. But massive projects like Toshka in southern Egypt have languished due to mismanagement, corruption and Mubarak's ouster.

In his latest "Letter from India," NPR's Philip Reeves explains how the wealth gap plays into India's obsession with murder — both fictional and real.

What will it take to get a proposal to build a California high-speed rail system off the ground? We speak to KPBS Reporter Tom Fudge about the latest news on the high-speed rail plan.

A regional summit has failed to break a deadlock in power-sharing talks in Zimbabwe. President Robert Mugabe and Morgan Tsvangirai, the main opposition leader, are vying for control of the Home Affairs Ministry. That ministry is powerful because it oversees the police force. Tsvangirai accuses Mugabe, who has led Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, of trying to hold on to too many of the most powerful posts.

Author Rajiv Chandrasekaran believes the U.S. has made multiple miscalculations in waging war in Afghanistan. In his new book, Little America, he says America should have learned from a largely forgotten U.S. adventure undertaken there a half-century earlier.

New York Times' reporter Rachel Swarns traces the first lady's family tree in her new book, American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama.

State health officials warned consumers Tuesday against eating a type of tamarind-flavored Mexican candy produced under the name de la Rosa Pulparindo that was found to contain dangerous levels of lea

The worldwide economic turmoil is showing signs of impact in the West African city of Dakar, as rising prices of food, fuel and fertilizer threaten the livelihood of the nation's poor. Africa will not be immune to the financial crisis, a World Bank executive says.

Public education is among the many casualties of the war in Afghanistan, and those most affected are Afghan girls. But despite the threat of attacks by militants wielding acid or worse, many girls are refusing to give up their education, with some attending secret, in-home classes.

Plastic debris is being swept by Pacific currents into a somewhat stagnant area of ocean between Hawaii and Los Angeles, resulting in polluted area nearly twice the size of Texas that's growing every year.