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Antonio Guterres, who has served as United Nations high commissioner for refugees since 2005, will step down at the end of this year. Steve Inskeep talks to him about Syria and Europe's worst refugee crisis since World War II.

As food policy gets more attention in Washington, lobbying groups are training chefs to stir up Congress. The hope is that they'll sway lawmakers on issues like school lunch and GMO labels.

Brooklyn-based artist Chico MacMurtrie has built a robot orchestra in a former Norwegian Seamen's Church. These robots don't look like the modern robots that might come to mind. They're steam punk.

The high-tech military surveillance blimp that broke loose over Maryland and Pennsylvania this week was brought down by a low-tech solution: It was shot and deflated.

There's no widely available vaccine to prevent plague, an infectious bacterial disease that's carried by squirrels and other rodents.

Skunk Bear's shivery new video explores how and why our skin acts so weird when we watch a scary movie, get cold or listen to music.

The judge in the case, Dariusz Mazur, said the U.S. request wasn't admissible under Polish law. Roman Polanski, 82, has both French and Polish citizenship.

In earlier America, before the automobile reigned supreme, the family wagon was often the target for seasonal mischief and mayhem.

Video of a rough classroom encounter between a black student and a white deputy in South Carolina had us thinking about alternative discipline policies in schools.

She's learned a lot about chimpanzees. But what has she learned from them has given her a new mission: improve the health of the planet.