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A Biden administration review could curtail copper mining near the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Minnesota — an area known for its pristine nature.

Chile holds the first round of a two-round presidential election, with candidates ranging from the far left to the far right.

On La Réunion, a remote Indian Ocean island, one community lives in a collapsed volcanic crater, reachable only by foot or helicopter. We bring you an audio postcard.

A fire in a Bronx apartment building has left 19 people dead, including 9 children. The blaze, caused by a malfunctioning space heater, injured more than 60 people.

Prince Andrew has given up his military's titles and royal sponsorships, and will defend himself as a private citizen in a civil suit in New York accusing him of sex abuse.

NATO leades say Turkey has dropped its objection to Finland and Sweden being invited into the alliance — one of the most significant reactions by the West so far to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Ivo Daalder, senior fellow of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, talks with Michele Norris about the doctrine of pre-emptive war. Daalder is in Princeton, N.J., where he is attending a conference on the pre-emption doctrine.

Republican lawmakers try to come up with a package of spending cuts to offset the cost of hurricane relief. With the Bush administration now asking for less money for Katrina victims than anticipated, the spending cuts may be less dramatic.

A handful of executive MBA programs around the country — from Harvard to Michigan's Ross School of Business — are teaching students Buddhist meditation techniques. It's not necessarily about teaching spirituality, but focus. There's no way to quantify whether learning how to be centered during a stressful business meeting is balancing the bottom lines at companies. But students say slowing down does help them be more effective.

There's no better way to build a team than to start a band, say the executives of one telecom firm who met while playing music. Soon, their employees will play against each other in a companywide battle of the bands. The only rule is they have to pick an instrument they don't already know how to play.