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The United Nations Security Council meets in a closed session to discuss implications of North Korea's testing of ballistic missiles in the past 24 hours. The United States has denounced North Korea's moves as provocation.

The vice president visits Baghdad to pressure the Iraqi government to set aside factional squabbling and move ahead on resolving issues that sharply divide the country and fuel the ongoing sectarian conflict.

"The phone rings in my hotel room, and it was Phil Everly," Nash says of the strange evening in 1992 when he fulfilled a childhood dream.

Colombian emigre Edmar Castaneda came to the U.S. as a teenager and fell in love with the music of Charlie Parker and Chick Corea. So he decided to use a traditional instrument of Colombia's cowboys to play his own form of pan-Latin jazz.

The director of the wildly acclaimed Slumdog Millionaire says the Mumbai he discovered during his movie shoot is a city on the move. And in India, he found, life is a study in contradiction and connection.

Several big names in corporate America announced layoffs Monday. Pfizer, Caterpillar, Sprint Nextel, Home Depot and Texas Instruments said they were cutting thousands of positions. So far this year, nearly 200,000 jobs have been eliminated.

The popular children's book author turns his attention to a macabre event at the orchestra, complete with music and illustrations. Daniel Handler, acting as Mr. Snicket's mouthpiece, investigates the mystery, starting with the death of the composer.

The director general of Britain's BBC network has resigned following a controversy over a report on child sex abuse. This is just the latest in what has been months of bad publicity for the broadcaster. NPR's Phillip Reeves reports.

Pakistanis angry over President Pervez Musharraf's suspension of the country's chief justice hold their largest demonstration yet.

Springfield has been celebrating Black History Month with a flag raising on Feb. 1 for the past 38 years.