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After fatal March shootings at Minnesota's Red Lake High School, most students did not return to class for the rest of the school year. As a new term begins, school officials address security concerns.

Japanese researchers have captured an elusive prey, taking the first pictures of a live mature giant squid -- at a depth of 3,000 feet in the North Pacific.

We measure greatness in baseball by the numbers: home runs, strikeouts, stolen bases. But how about ability to carry a tune? A new CD showcases Major League Baseball players singing. Some also play drums, banjo or guitar.

Blasts on the island of Bali cause deaths and injuries. The island is a popular tourist attraction and victims are of many different nationalities, police say. The same area was targeted by terrorists in 2002, resulting in more than 200 deaths.

This second of two reports explores the practice of American farmers using Brazilian soil. The land is a fraction of what it costs in the Midwest, labor is cheap, and the climate hospitable enough to grow crops 12 months a year. But U.S. farmers have other issues to deal with there.

Family and friends last night remembered the 12 miners who died this week at the Sago Mine in West Virginia. Company officials tried to explain what happened to the miners and why the families had been misinformed about their fate. From West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Emily Corio reports.

David Horovitz, editor-in-chief of The Jerusalem Post, provides an analysis of Israeli politics in the wake of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's hospitalization

At least 1,000 people are believe dead in Pakistan and India after an earthquake with a magnitude of 7.6 hit early Saturday morning. The quake was centered about 60 miles north of Pakistan's capital, Islamabad.

Mike Heidingsfield spent 13 months in Iraq as the top civilian commander in charge of training Iraqi police. He tells Linda Werteimer that Iraqi police are now a more visible presence, but that makes them targets for insurgents, too.

Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.