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In the country's largest city Aleppo, large swaths of a historic market were burned to the ground as government troops battled rebels for control of the city. And a bomb struck a largely Kurdish city in the country's northeast.

Daniel Libeskind, the architect behind the master plan for rebuilding ground zero, says he sees the site as a cultural response to the attacks of Sept. 11. In coming up with his design, he turned to icons of America -- the Statue of Liberty, the Declaration of Independence and poet Walt Whitman. Libeskind speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor for the final installment of the Intersections series.

Science writer Henry Fountain says the deadly quake that shook Alaska in 1964 was so loud some thought it was the beginning of World War III. His new book is The Great Quake.

The train burst past the end of its elevated tracks in the Netherlands. Instead of crashing to the ground, the train was caught and held aloft by an artist's massive sculpture of a whale's tail.

Yanya's debut album, Miss Universe,shows off the unique melodies and grounded guitar playing that first earned her attention.

The traditions of flamenco and jazz are disparate, but in the hands of a few Spanish jazz musicians, these two worlds commingle and find common ground.

Fraught With Difficulties is a historical novel about the Lewis and Clark expedition that is solidly grounded in the original journals, which were kept...

Security camera footage shows a man running toward a speed camera and then pushing it over. And then for good measure, he rips the camera off, throws it on the ground and drives away.

Nearly $4 billion in debt relief is set to go out to farmers of color in June. White farmers have sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the grounds that these payments are racist toward them.

Pro golfer Sergio Garcia hit a ball into a tree at the Arnold Palmer Invitational over the weekend. The easy choice? Just take a 1-stroke penalty and drop the ball to the ground. But Garcia climbed 15 feet up the tree and played the ball from there.