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The author's new memoir, Winter Journal, is a history of his body — scars, panic attacks and near-death experiences. He tells Fresh Air how he got a reputation as a dirty fighter, why he doesn't drive and how hard it was to see his mother's dead body.

Sri Lankans vote Thursday in a close presidential race. The election comes as the country grapples with a range of problems, including the distribution of tsunami aid. But political analysts say at heart, it's referendum on the peace process in an ongoing ethnic conflict.

Increasingly, hospitals have been the target of ransomware attacks. Researchers find that if you are unlucky enough to be in the hospital when a ransomware attack occurs, your risk of dying goes up.

Nearly simultaneous bomb blasts in New Delhi on Saturday night kill more than 50 people and left nearly 200 injured. Also, a train wreck in southern India killed about 110 people.

At a ceremony in Baghdad, Iraq's Cabinet ministers are officially sworn in, but holes remain. Key posts reserved for representatives of Iraq's Sunni Arab community have still not been filled amid continued wrangling between the Sunnis and leaders of the Shiite majority.

While the drama of the 1954 film hinged on the high stakes of the Pacific theater during World War II, The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial involves an all-volunteer navy and no sea battles.

What if this desert city was better designed to protect against the deadly heat that is inevitably coming with climate change?

Tarantulas are looking for love in southeastern Colorado. The city of La Junta capitalizes on the spiders' annual season of romance by hosting a tarantula festival.

Singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens has been making soulful introspective music for more than 20 years without revealing too much about his own personal life. His latest album, Javelin, is out Friday.

The 2022 novel was a best seller — and now it's a streaming video experiment.