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We have withdrawn this story about U.S. incarceration rates of children because the U.N. study's author has acknowledged a significant error in the data.

Since the pandemic started, musicians have been trying to find ways to play together in real time online. Two platforms — Audio Movers and Jack Trip — offer promise.

In Romania, a cobbler crafted leather shoes two and a half feet long. You flop around, as if in swimming fins, and it is suddenly hard to get too close to other people.

A look at the turnout numbers for the midterm elections.

An overproduction of grapes in California and Europe, and a falling demand for expensive wine, have given way to tumbling wine prices. Michele Norris talks with Linda Murphy, who writes the weekly "Bargain Wine" column for the San Francisco Chronicle. Murphy says there are deals to be had.

President Bush makes a surprise visit to Baghdad to visit Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The president told the new leader and his Cabinet that the future of Iraq is in its citizens' hands, and that it's in the interest of the United States that the mission in Iraq succeeds.

The strongest earthquake in 40 years hit Southeast Asia Sunday morning, setting off tsunamis that killed thousands. Measured at 8.9, the earthquake is the most powerful recorded since a 9.2 quake hit Alaska in 1964.

Marianne Faithfull recently released her album Easy Come, Easy Go. In 2005, Faithfull talked with Terry Gross about her early career, her struggle with drugs, and her evolution as an artist.

The handwritten letter, dated June 2001, was written by a six-year-old girl named Anna, on a family vacation in the Bahamas. The message, written in crayon, read: "Please don't pollute. Thank you."