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The great British guitarist returns after a 12-year hiatus with the entrancing "Palermo Snow." The song's Arabic/Mediterranean sound evokes the tune's inspiration: a rare snowfall in Palermo, Sicily, when Renbourn was there for a concert.

NPR's Ari Shapiro provides an update on the condition of the American twins evacuated from Ukraine earlier this week. The two were too small to move in the days after they were born into a war zone.

There was more fierce fighting today around the central Iraqi city of An Najaf, about 100 miles south of the capital of Baghdad. U.S. forces with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division have all but surrounded the city, and are slowly eliminating the Iraqi military and paramilitary resistance there. NPR's Eric Westervelt, embedded with the 3rd Infantry, reports on the fierce battle to gain control of the city -- site of a holy Shi'ite shrine.

The birds are singing, the flowers are blooming and May Day is soon upon us. But somehow Jim Nayder, the Annoying Music Man, finds a way to spoil the beauty of it all. On Weekend Edition Saturday, Nayder shares some terrible recordings he considers appropriate for May Day with NPR's Linda Wertheimer.

The inventive compositions of jazz bassist Charles Mingus and his volatile personality loom large in the jazz world.

The U.S. Army is expanding benefits for both birth and non-birth parents in its force.

A dramatic fire near the plant burned through the night and into Saturday but led to no evacuation orders or serious injuries — just heavy smoke that was seen and smelled in nearby New York City.

The Oscar-nominated film Slumdog Millionaire is a small movie with a big heart, and perhaps no one appreciates its rags-to-riches theme as much as Dev Patel, the 18-year-old Londoner who plays the lead.

Bars like Whitlow's on Wilson near Washington, D.C., are drawing crowds with an increasingly popular video game called Rock Band. Players can take the stage as rock stars — singing or playing guitar, drums or bass to their favorite hits.

For comedienne Joan Rivers, almost everything is fair game: race, sex, death and, of course, her life. That's the subject on her new autobiographical play, Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress.