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A NATO airstrike in southern Afghanistan killed at least 27 civilians, the Afghan Cabinet said Monday. NATO forces confirmed in a statement that its planes fired Sunday on what it believed was a group of insurgents in southern Uruzgan province on their way to attack a joint NATO-Afghan patrol.

This year's Oscar season illuminates an interesting quirk in box-office strategy: How theaters and studios place bets on re-releases of movies they think will be nominated. Some pay off — but some sure don't.

Slumdog Millionaire composer A.R. Rahman produced a driving, powerful score that's already earned a Golden Globe. His organic approach to writing draws on a simple desire to make people smile when they listen. The eclectic soundtrack also features collaborations with singer M.I.A.

Melissa Block and Michele Norris provide a correction to a story about Stephen Chu, President-elect Obama's nominee for Energy secretary, and also read reactions to the story of the boy, the dentist and the hockey stick.

Diplomatic negotiations between the U.S. and Syria are just beginning anew. But clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh has been shuttling between New York and Damascus for nearly a decade. He talks to NPR's Scott Simon about dialogue in music.

NPR Senior News Analyst Daniel Schorr says that while the election of Russia's new president, Dimitri Medvedev, has been described as more of a coronation, and Medvedev himself described as a puppet of outgoing president Vladimir Putin, there may be something more profound at work.

Voters are closely divided over the presidential race. They say they would prefer to see a Democrat in the White House. But they pick Republican John McCain over Democrats Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama when asked about specific candidates.

Bush set a 2025 target date for the U.S. to slow growth of greenhouse gas emissions, but remains leery of any plan that would hurt economic growth.

News that a software engineer for Apple lost an iPhone prototype in a California bar has been treated with skepticism by some tech bloggers, who suspected a publicity stunt. But the head of the company that says it's sharing Apple's secrets with the world insists the strange tale is legit. Tell us about your most embarrassing workplace gaffe.

As Athens prepares for the upcoming Summer Olympics, archaeologists are exploring the thousands of years of history that lie just beneath the city's surface. Chris Joyce reports on findings about the civilization that created the first Olympics.