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Polish freediver Mateusz Malina, second from right, accompanied by judges an...
Freediving is a risky sport, involving swimming deep into the ocean without the aid of air tanks. But after a diver's death in November, some freedivers worry that the sport's governing body is still not doing enough to prevent common injuries and reel in overambitious competitors.
A mother waits with her child at an HIV clinic in Nyagasambu, Rwanda, in Feb...
Ten years ago Congress approved a $15 billion plan to combat HIV in developing countries. Since then, the global health initiative has funded HIV treatment for nearly 7 million people and prevented hundreds of thousands of babies from getting infected during childbirth.
The diary contains handwritten notes by Alfred Rosenberg, a top aide to Adolf Hitler who helped shape Nazi ideology. Sara Bloomfield, director of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, says it took 17 years to procure the diary.
President Obama met with tech leaders Tuesday at the White House. The subject was the troubled Affordable Care Act website and the challenges of federal procurement. The president also tapped one of their own to take over the overhaul of Kurt DelBene, a former Microsoft executive and husband of Rep. Suzan DelBene.
The second part of NPR's series on maritime Britain begins on a small ferry en route to the storm-lashed island of Lundy. The island, just three miles long, is where pirates once awaited their prey. Today, there are just over two dozen permanent residents, all employed by a conservation organization that protects the island. Lundy has a pub, a small fire department and publishes its own stamps. Bells have been re-hung in the tower of an old gothic church, and since then some 2,000 bell ringers have made pilgrimage to the island.
Audie Cornish and Melissa Block read emails from listeners about Philip Reeves' report about the BBC's Shipping Forecast, a maritime weather forecast treasured by sea-farers and land lubbers alike.