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A Norwegian plane that made an emergency landing in Iran is stranded, due to unintended effects of U.S. sanctions. The plane needs new engine parts, but importing them is prohibited by the sanctions.

Officers swore they saw the driver moving his fingers around on an instrument. The driver said no, that he was actually playing air bagpipe. He got off with a warning.

The volcano spewed heavy smoke into the air and lava down its slopes, prompting the evacuation of thousands of people in southern Chile.

Fresh Air critic Ken Tucker says Lauderdale's career is at once admirable and somewhat puzzling.

One of the judges of The Great British Bake Off mistakenly tweeted out the winner for the show's season several hours early. She said she was in Bhutan and thought it had already aired back home.

Hear the Irish instrumental duo perform a set of jigs, reels and airs live in West Virginia.

With his quartet, Sex Mob, he's just released a new CD called Diaspora Blues. Last year, the band released a CD paying homage to the music of James Bond films. It's called Sex Mob Does Bond and is the sextet's third album. Bernstein also heads two other groups: Diaspora Soul, which specializes in performing versions of ancient Jewish melodies, and Millennial Territory Orchestra, with which he explores jazz from the 1920s and 1930s. This interview first aired November 21, 2001.

Director of the Louis Armstrong House & Archives, Michael Cogswell. The archive contains 5,000 photographs, 350 pages of autobiographical manuscripts, 270 sets of music charts, 650 home-made tape recordings and more. We'll hear excerpts from the tapes. Cogswell is in the process of converting the Louis Armstrong House in Queens, where Louis and his wife Lucille lived for almost 30 years, into a museum and educational center. This interview first aired August 2, 2001.

Israel bombs the Beirut airport and a Lebanese army air base, saying it holds Lebanon's government responsible for Wednesday's abduction of two Israeli soldiers -- an act carried out by Hezbollah militants. Nicholas Blanford of the Christian Science Monitor talks with Madeleine Brand about the escalating violence.

Singer and songwriter Carole King wrote '60s hits such as "Up on the Roof" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" In the '70s, she achieved lasting fame performing her own material, such as "Natural Woman" and Tapestry, the best-selling album of the decade. Carole King's new album is titled The Living Room Tour. It was recorded live in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Hyannis, Mass. (This interview originally aired June 19, 1989.)