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Robin Meloy Goldsby has spent decades making "pleasant and unobtrusive" background music as a cocktail lounge piano player. Now she steps front and center with a memoir called Piano Girl: Lessons in Life, Music, and the Perfect Blue Hawaiian.

More than 10 million illegal immigrants are thought to live in the United States. Most are from Mexico. A new report from the Pew Hispanic Center examines where and how these undocumented immigrants live and work.

For the first time in a generation, a new piece of music by Johann Sebastian Bach has been discovered. The young composer wrote the aria in 1713 while working in Germany. NPR has a portion of the forgotten aria — and its amazing story.

Robert Siegel talks with Los Angeles Times reporter John Daniszewski about the revelation of British government memos detailing early plans for invading Iraq.

K rations weren't on the menu at the Army's 30th annual Culinary Arts Competition. At Fort Lee, Va., military chefs waged battles to see who could make the tastiest and healthiest morale-boosting dishes.

At least seven journalists have been killed while covering the war in Ukraine, while many face shelling, shooting and detention on the job. They were recognized by the Pulitzer Prize Board on Monday.

In May, North Korean leaders hinted to a visiting U.S scholar that they're willing to resume negotiations with the United States on nuclear arms. But if those talks are revived, North Korea wants to focus on mutual steps toward a denuclearized Korean peninsula. The Bush administration has said repeatedly it doesn't want to depart from six-way nuclear talks.

Commentator Irwin Greenstein sees signs of trouble in the homeland security buying frenzy. He is a contributing writer for the stock market newsletter The Penny Sleuth.

The No Child Left Behind Act requires low-income schools that haven't met performance targets for three years in a row to provide tutoring services to their students. The tutoring industry is benefiting from the influx of federal money, but critics worry about the quality of the services. In our second and final story on the rise of tutoring, Elaine Korry reports.

Syria's ruling Baath Party holds a congress where President Bashar al-Assad tells delegates that the priorities facing the country were the economy and fighting corruption. He also told members not to be influenced by international pressures for reform.