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Hear why these three composers are still superstars in opera houses worldwide.

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker is being hailed as a hero after rescuing a woman from a burning building. He saw his neighbor's house on fire Thursday night, and he ran in to pull her to safety. Host Michel Martin speaks with Mayor Booker about the experience he calls a "come to Jesus moment."

Dining on the doomed ship Titanic was epic, and many people are recreating those feasts to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the ship's demise. First-class passengers feasted on oysters, foie gras, and other luxuries.

Hear the Australian pop star pay a visit to World Cafe in 2012 to perform songs from his new album, Making Mirrors.

Just three weeks ago, the former vice president had a heart transplant. This would be his first public appearance since then.

Dangerous storms are expected from north central Texas up through Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri and Iowa and as far east as Wisconsin.

Turkey is closely aligned with the West, but it also depends on Iran to meet the energy demands of its growing economy. The relationship between Turkey and Iran has shown signs of strain over Syria, where Iran strongly supports the government, and Turkey wants regime change.

The history of rocket launches is filled with failure, but out of those failures came knowledge that helped lead to success, experts note. The question is whether North Korea's latest failure will put it on a successful path.

Four decades after their sound helped redefine popular music, the German synthesizer quartet is playing a series of eight concerts at New York's Museum of Modern Art.

In a new book, Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine, Harvard entomologist and photographer Piotr Naskrecki documents his travels, from New Guinea to New Zealand and beyond, looking for organisms whose genes can tell us something about conditions on Earth millions of years ago.