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The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.

After decades of success, director Martin Scorsese has his first Oscar. His film The Departed also won Best Picture. Among actors, Forest Whitaker was honored for playing Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland, Helen Mirren for The Queen.

NPR correspondent Frank Langfitt watched as instructors walked party officials through a mock press conference. Many were reluctant to open up, seeing only the down side of sharing information.

Each month, about 1,000 Puerto Rican families are moving to central Florida, a swing region. Migrating in part because of the island's economic crisis, both parties are now trying to woo them.

For the first time in 60 years, a right-wing political party will sit in Parliament. Germany's chancellor made it clear that her center-right Christian Democratic Union will not partner with AfD.

Songs Of Disappearance is an entire album of calls from endangered Australian birds. Last month, it briefly perched at No. 3 on the country's top 50 albums chart – ahead of Taylor Swift.

Across ambient, jazz, psychedelic and American Primitive styles, this year proved that the possibilities of the guitar continue to flourish.

Top officials from China and the U.S. met face-to-face in Alaska today. So far the talks have been tense, with both sides exchanging heated words.

The ABA Journal, the magazine of the American Bar Association, recently ranked the top 25 legal shows in television history. L.A. Law ranked at the top of the list, beating Perry Mason. ABA Journal editor and publisher Edward Adams offers his insight.

Top U.N. arms inspector Hans Blix, en route to Baghdad, says he expects difficulties in assessing whether Saddam Hussein is hiding weapons of mass destruction. But he warns his team will not accept any resistance to the checks. NPR's Nick Spicer reports.