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Ahmed al-Faqi al-Mahdi was on trial in The Hague for his role in the deliberate destruction of nine mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu. The radical Islamist was sentenced to nine years in prison.

The guitarist played lead on Elvis Presley's early recordings, and was part of some of the most iconic moments in rock 'n' roll history. Moore died Tuesday after a long illness.

Lily Tuck's novel of 19th century Paraguay wins the National Book Award for fiction. Tuck, awarded the prize for her novel The News From Paraguay, was one of five New York women authors nominated for the fiction award. Kevin Boyle won the nonfiction prize for Arc of Justice and Jean Valentine's Door in the Mountain won in the poetry category. Hear NPR's Lynn Neary.

A look at potential history-making moments at tonight's Academy Awards ceremony.

As Russian forces continue attacking Ukraine, Ukrainian artists have been visualizing the resilience of their nation and how their lives have been turned upside down by war.

Three comics, all Indian-American, will play seven cities in the land of their parents' birth. On the bill: politics, gender roles and religion.

Female bodies sprawl across canvases in a retrospective of work by pop artist Tom Wesselmann, now on view at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. If the images make you blush, that's just part of a long artistic tradition.

As the leaders of the world's industrialized nations meet in Gleneagles, Scotland, protesters gathered outside. Thousands demonstrated for more aid for Africa, against war, and against the G8 itself. A police plan allows protesters no closer than 500 meters from the site.

Yippie Abbie Hoffman was arrested in one while protesting the Vietnam War in 1968. Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, wore one while joining fellow Vietnam veterans for a tribute this past Memorial Day. Their attire? Shirts that looked like flags.

David Fefferman with the Southern California Carnivorous Plant Enthusiasts discusses his love of animal-eating plants and the group's expo, which takes place this weekend.