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Ban Ki-moon said the Syrian government was using hospitals as torture centers and was abusing and chaining children as young as 10.

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The highly-anticipated gathering of flu experts has been described as a fact-finding session that will focus on understanding how bird flu studies done at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands and at the University of Wisconsin were performed and overseen by the relevant authorities.

In this rebroadcast from 2010, the musical theater legend talks about writing the lyrics and music for several of his productions, including the 1981 musical Merrily We Roll Along, which is currently in the middle of a two-week run in New York City.

NPR's Andy Carvin covered the uprising in Libya virtually, but now he'll see the country and its people in person.

China's economy sailed through the financial crisis unscathed — at least in the short run.

The findings mean pygmy goats join the ranks of humans, bats and whales as mammals with vocal plasticity.

Slogans for Las Vegas restaurant the Heart Attack Grill include "Taste worth dying for." But the burger joint's shtick of serving "quadruple bypass" burgers collided with reality Saturday, when a patron suffered a heart attack while eating at the restaurant.

In Libya, reminders of the old regime are everywhere.

Since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began in March 2011, international attention has been focused on the marches and demonstrations led by the Syrian opposition. Though it is often cast as a monolith, the Syrian opposition is made up of many subgroups with varied interests.