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Germany has reversed its decades-long opposition to opening its Holocaust archive. The files contain information on more than 17 million people who were murdered or forced into slave labor by the Nazis.

Madeleine Albright, the former secretary of state under President Bill Clinton, talks about her book The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs. Her previous book is Madam Secretary: A Memoir.

Today's expensive gasoline is making people look for alternatives. That has opened doors of opportunity for entrepreneurs like Andrew Perlman, who is betting that the newest fuel will be made from one of humanity's oldest: coal.

Christopher O'Riley, host of NPR's From the Top, considers Elliott Smith to be one America's greatest songwriters. Smith died in 2003 before ever achieving massive fame. O'Riley's latest release, Home to Oblivion, is a classical translation of Smith's work.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with rising opera star and break dancer Jakub Jozef Orlinski, whose new album "Farewells" is a collection of Polish opera classics, little known to the rest of the world.

The cases point to possible sexual transmission of this cousin of smallpox — a previously unknown method of spread for monkeypox.

Just how swanky does your office need to be? That's a loaded question in parts of China, where some district governments have built huge, palatial headquarters. There has long been unrest in China over waste and mismanagement in local government. But as the country's economy has expanded, the problem only seems to get worse.

Soprano Renee Fleming delights an audience in Buffalo with a surprise performance of Cole Porter's "So in Love" from the musical Kiss Me Kate. Conductor JoAnn Falletta and the Buffalo Philharmonic back her up at Kleinhans Hall.

President Bush arrives in Baghdad for a surprise meeting with leaders of Iraq's new government. The president was scheduled to meet Iraqis by teleconference, but went in person instead.

After years of study, Rocky Mountain National Park has become the first national park to establish a "critical load" for pollution. The load represents the limit beyond which pollutants cause harm to wildlife and plants. The nitrogen levels in the park are already more than twice the critical load.