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Remains representing more than 600 Native American individuals sit in collections at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Research Laboratories of Archeology — the state’s oldest North Carolina-focused archeology center.

In The Orphan Master's Son, Adam Johnson sensitively imagines life how ordinary North Koreans struggle to endure work camps, professional torturers and the repressions of an all-powerful state.

The swans are the descendants of a pair that the British monarch gifted the city of Lakeland nearly 70 years ago. The now 50 swans are being rounded up this week for their annual physical.

Wednesday night's jackpot was the second largest in Powerball history — a little over $1.7 billion. Nearly three months went by without a winner.

He has a new documentary out called "Silver Dollar Road." It centers on one family who had their land taken from them even though several family members live on the property.

Bapu Shingara Singh was in his early 20s when British forces, attempting to quell an uprising, opened fire on a large crowd of unarmed Indian protestors. The 1919 Amristar Massacre was a critical event in India's history. Most of the world has forgotten about it, but it has shaped Singh's worldview.

Benazir Bhutto's 19-year-old son Bilawal Zardari on Sunday was named chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party, with his father, Asif, as co-chairman. Party leaders meeting in Bhutto's ancestral home also decided to participate in the Jan. 8 elections, but the vote is expected to be postponed.

Pakistan's elections are put off until Feb. 18, due to the assassination last week of opposition leader Benazir Bhutto while campaigning. The vote had been set for Jan. 8. Deadly riots followed Bhutto's assassination, and the country is still tense.

In his book, Jeremy Eichler examines works by Strauss, Schoenberg, Britten, and Shostakovich.

What makes for a great musical director? What lessons might Gustav Mahler teach modern conductors today?