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Despite penguins, lions and gorillas battling for Hollywood supremacy, 2005 will go down as a box office disappointment. But NPR critic Bob Mondello says the year's films were high on quality.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist.

By Joyce KryszakBuffalo, NY – A seminar held Tuesday night at the Apollo Resource Center could help East Side entrepreneurs bag some new business with the…

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" better than 3-D goggles. Or perhaps an inflatable wetsuit for big-wave surfing. Those are two of the top gadgets of the year, according to Popular Science magazine's "100 Best Innovations" issue. To tell us a little more about some of those innovations, Editor-In-Chief Mark Jannot joins host Scott Simon.

When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.

Tops Markets will close ten underperforming stores as part of its financial restructuring. None are in Western New York.The affected stores are primarily…

By Mark ScottBuffalo, NY – Buffalo is back on top as one of the nation's best places for the arts. AmericanStyle magazine says Buffalo is the number one…

Fresh Air's arbiter of things filmic offers his annual year-end movies wrap-up. This time, his Top 10 list has 11 entries, as the number-nine slot features a tie. At the top: Julian Schnabel's The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

In Nigeria, Africa's most populous nation, the median age is 18. Many youth say their aging leaders are out of touch, yet the leading candidates in Saturday's presidential election are in their 70s.