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The new track is bubbly and effervescent, like a drink you’d sip in a pool floatie, and reminds us to keep dancing.

The bank says it will shed nearly 15% of its workforce and $100 billion in investments as it refocuses on growth markets in Asia and reduces operations in Europe and the U.S.

NPR's Scott Simon tells a tale of two piping plovers, endangered birds who've returned to Chicago to pair up and possibly raise another family of chicks.

After the oil crisis of the 1970s, France invested heavily in nuclear facilities. Today, France's 58 nuclear plants meet 80 percent of its total electricity needs. Environmentalists cite safety concerns, but France continues to push nuclear power as a way to achieve energy independence.

Some 30 percent of the seafood eaten in the United States this year will come from "aquaculture" farms, most of them in Asia. But universities are working with the U.S. government to improve fish farming practices -- and tap into a billion-dollar industry. Hear NPR's Chris Arnold.

Writer Charles D'Ambrosio's The Dead Fish Museum reveal the dark sides of America, from psychiatric wards of Manhattan to the shores of Puget Sound. The collection of eight stories comes 10 years after D'Ambrosio's debut, The Point.

Are United States hospitals equipped to handle a flu pandemic or a major terrorist attack? Stephen Flynn, author of The Edge of Disaster, sizes up the United States medical system and finds it sorely lacking.

Typhoon Noru has made landfall in Vietnam, after causing at least eight deaths and widespread flooding in the Philippines.

Too Much Happiness, the newest collection of short stories from the master of the form, features a cast of lovers and losers, husbands and widows, scientists and woodworkers. "Is there anyone writing short fiction today in English who has more authority?" asks reviewer Alan Cheuse.

A veterinarian said that during the rescue operation, the dangerously thin white mammal began to have breathing difficulties, and so experts decided to humanely euthanize the creature.