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Divers are having difficulty getting into the capsized ship. It was sailing to a resort island Wednesday when it capsized. Most of the passengers were high school students on a school trip.

Invasive species introduced into the Great Lakes by the shipping industry have caused enormous economic and ecological damage. Some estimates put the…

The deal also includes a record $4 billion in criminal penalties. Family members for some of those victims had urged stiffer sanctions.

Flooding that has killed more than 400 people in Thailand continues to make its way south into the capital, Bangkok. Tempers are flaring as some residents complain the government is sacrificing poorer areas to the waters to protect more affluent and industrial areas closer to the city center.

Sara Suleri Goodyear's heartbreaking memoir, Meatless Days, describes growing up in post-colonial Pakistan with an elegiac immediacy. Author Rajesh Parameswaran says the book does justice to the way memory actually lives in the mind.

Today, the state of Michigan announced a settlement with Enbridge Energy over the largest inland oil spill in American history.The state’s $75 million…

The Next IdeaOnly a few decades ago, Israel was a virtual ghost town for business. Now, it’s considered one of the most innovative and energetic economies…

About one hundred soldiers from the Michigan National Guard are going to Afghanistan.The 1460th Transportation Unit leaves on Saturday for Fort Hood,…

A billion people worldwide live in slums, largely invisible to city services and governments — but not to satellites. A global movement is putting mapping technology in the hands of slum dwellers to persuade governments and the residents themselves to see these shadow cities in a whole new light. NPR's Gregory Warner visits one slum in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

Kevyn Orr is Detroit’s state-appointed emergency manager. And he has some pretty extraordinary powers to chart the course of Detroit’s potential…