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Bill Holcomb plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.

A drop in Asian markets touched off selling after an index that forecasts China's economic activity was revised lower. In Europe, interbank lending tightened, placing the region's financial sector on shaky ground.

From the Kitchen Window column

From the Kitchen Window column

The airline business is seeing more trouble. Stocks in major carriers took a beating Tuesday, because the souring economy has been keeping travelers at home.

The NASA budget for fiscal year 2011 would give the agency a more than 30 percent financial boost while dramatically changing the direction of future human exploration. The budget would also fund NASA to contract with private industry to provide astronaut transportation to the international space station as soon as possible.

The author talks about her blockbuster novel, The Lovely Bones, which features a surprising device: its main character, a young girl who has been murdered, narrates the book from the afterlife. Sebold's book is the basis for a new film by director Peter Jackson.

The two mortgage giants -- Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac -- could end up costing taxpayers billions more over the next three years, according to a new government report.

Ulysses S. Grant's great-great-grandson stumbled across a photograph in a family album that may show Abraham Lincoln in front of the White House. It could be the last photo ever taken of the 16th president. But is it really Lincoln?

Drummer Ahmir Thompson, also known as "Questlove," talked with Fresh Air in 2003 about his career in the hip-hop group The Roots.