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In downtown St. Louis, the opening of the new Busch Stadium is the latest effort to beautify and improve an area that once was called an eyesore and a tragedy. More than 50 businesses have opened in the area, where residential lofts are booming and major projects are building excitement in St. Louis.

Hong Kong's Wong Kar-Wai is a visual stylist: witness In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild. His latest film, 2046, runs riot with color, texture -- and beautiful people.

The April jobs report shows a labor market on the mend. Employers added 288,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent, partly because of a decline in the size of the labor force.

The High Strung's "Gravedigger" seems to condense the entirety of The Who's Meaty Beaty Big And Bouncy into a single song. It shows both a rich appreciation for the finer points of The Who and a sharper streak of originality by capturing the band's weirdness.

Scientists using the ground-based Gemini Planet Imager found a very young "Super Jupiter" about 100 light years away.

With the deadline to file for the May primary in the rearview mirror, races for Oregon’s legislative seats are now set.

The great flu pandemic of 1918 killed 50 million people -- more than any other disease outbreak in the history of the world. John Oxford, a prominent British professor, wants to know why the disease was so deadly -- and what the current generation needs to rise to the challenge of a global epidemic.

On the 70th anniversary of Japan's World War II capitulation, Akihito offers an unprecedented apology for the death and destruction caused by Japanese forces.

The tiny, super-rich state of Qatar takes pride in its modernity, with its gleaming skyscrapers and lucrative gas fields. But it is also investing in a huge history project.

The country singer reflects on his time in prison and several of his greatest hits in conversation with Terry Gross in 1995.