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Some young people in India's heartland are aggressively pursuing new opportunities; others are mired in poverty. They work and hope and pray for a better life along the Grand Trunk Road that crosses South Asia, the focus of a new NPR series.

Rupert Murdoch, his son and the former head of his newspaper business in the United Kingdom appeared before a Parliamentary committee Tuesday, facing questions about the News of The World phone-hacking scandal. The head of the Metropolitan Police, who is leaving his job because of connections to the scandal, faced another committee.

One of Pakistan's most eminent journalists is confined to his home under permanent armed guard because he fears he'll be killed for speaking out. Najam Sethi is getting death threats from the Taliban for writing articles warning of the threat of Islamist militancy to his country. Sethi says part of his problem is that anchormen at private TV channels spout fundamentalist views and incite violence.

The Kingsmen's enduring recording of the song turns 60 this year, and remains a classic, in part because of its dramatic history.

A teenage girl in a burqa steps out and takes the microphone. She launches into a tirade about the lack of girl's education in her home town of Gwadar on the Arabian Sea. In Pakistan, it's unusual for a young girl speak out. It's very rare for her to do so in front of Pakistan's most powerful man, the chief of the armed forces. The general came to Gwadar to listen to people debate a multi-billion plan to make the port a centerpiece of a new "silk road" trading route to China.

Hamid Mir, one of Pakistan's most famous journalists, was shot and wounded by gunmen as he was driving down a busy street in Karachi. It's the second such attack this month on a journalist.

The former head of the bank Bob Diamond apologized for "reprehensible behavior" in testimony before a British parliamentary committee Wednesday. But he complained the bank had been unfairly singled out for manipulating banking loan interest rates.

One man's quest to get out of Gaza and into Egypt highlights Palestinian calls for more freedom of movement.

The Border Patrol's indicators of success for Operation Streamline don't always add up and neither do the numbers: No one knows just how much the program costs. The Border Patrol makes arrests, but the Justice Department and federal courts provide the logistics of convicting those who cross illegally.

Cardinal Angelo Becciu, the first cardinal ever prosecuted by the Vatican criminal court, was convicted in a complicated financial trial that aired the Vatican's dirty laundry.