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Africa is lowest in the world in COVID-19 cases and deaths — but also in vaccinations. Dr. John Nkengasong says he's working on multiple fronts to secure doses and improve distribution.

John Keats' famous 1816 sonnet "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer" celebrated the recent discovery of Uranus — the first new planet to be found in more than a thousand years. In fact, says author Richard Holmes, the scientific discoveries of the Romantic age inspired generations of great artists and their work.

The actress and author's first novel, When It Happens to You, is built of interlocking short stories about a group of characters who orbit each other and the plot, sometimes touching, often not — but always exerting a tug on each other. Ringwald says that even at the height of her teen stardom, she was writing.

In their new book Willpower, psychologist Roy Baumeister and science writer John Tierney explore the science of self-control. Willpower is a limited resource, they say, but with practice and persistence, you can harness "the greatest human strength."

Chan Koonchung's smart, incendiary new novel takes place in a dystopian (but all too believable) future, after the collapse of the global economy. Only China has emerged unscathed — and mysteriously, an entire month has been erased from the public memory.

In the 2008 financial crash, a lot was written in newspapers and even books — but there wasn't much fiction out there to help those who like to view life through an imaginative lens. Now author John Lanchester's Capital can fill that void. It describes the crash as seen from London, and Lizzie Skurnick calls it "brilliant."

Previous months were revised upward and hourly wages climbed higher. All this has analysts wondering if the economy has finally kicked into a higher gear.

Venezuela holds local elections Sunday and for the opposition, in a change in policy, is taking part.

Next week, Beijing will become the first city to host both Summer and Winter Olympics. To China, it's a big deal — even if a handful of countries are protesting China's human rights record.

The next CIA director may be Air Force Gen. Michael V. Hayden, an aide to National Intelligence Director John Negroponte. Porter Goss said Friday he will leave the top CIA post. Did he jump or was he pushed?

A jury recommends a $9 million award in punitive damages to a man who blamed his heart attack on Vioxx. The jury found that the drug manufacturer, Merck, failed to warn about the risks of its arthritis drug and misrepresented the risks to physicians. The jury had already recommended $4.5 million in compensatory damages.

The political crisis in Nepal is deepening. The country's main political parties have rejected a plan by King Gyanendra to hand over power, saying it's not enough. And protesters are taking to the streets.

As the world gets hotter, plants and animals have been trying to adjust by changing when they bloom, migrate, molt, and breed. For some species, these adjustments come off nicely and for others they don't. One European bird's chicks now hatch at a time of year when there's not much around for Mom to feed them.

Sudanese vice president John Garang died over the weekend with 13 others when his helicopter crashed en route from Uganda. The former rebel leader was sworn in as the country's first vice president weeks ago. News of Garang's death sparked riots in Khartoum, Sudan's capital.

A fatal police shooting in the wake of transit bombings in London raises a question: Are police employing a "shoot to kill" policy? There's no official confirmation, but experts see ties to past approach with IRA.

Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden's first Supreme Court pick, has been sworn in as the 116th justice. She is the first Black woman to serve on the nation's high court.

Jim Obergefell was the named plaintiff in the Supreme Court case that legalized same-sex marriage in 2015. He spells out why the LGBTQ+ community is so concerned about Roe v Wade.

Walter Mosley, the creator of the bestselling Easy Rawlings mysteries, has accomplished something remarkable with his young-adult novel 47, according to author Steven Barnes: "He used the struggles of one frightened boy to represent [a] common yearning."

Music has brought solace and companionship for some of those who were blinded in the 2019 mass protests in Chile.

A reporter's job is to present the facts, but that's hard to do from a body bag or gurney, says journalist Michael Weisskopf. In 2003, a grenade shattered Weisskopf's right hand while he was an embedded reporter with the U.S. Army in Iraq.