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A multimillion-dollar deal to provide ski lifts for a resort in North Korea has been cancelled, after Switzerland's government decided the deal violated U.N. sanctions forbidding the export of luxury items to the country.

The task force said the construction needs to withstand storms made stronger by climate change. It also recommends new standards for flood protection.

Officials in Egypt say they have no grounds to keep holding former President Hosni Mubarak, so he could be released this week. Meantime, Islamic militants killed 25 policemen in Sinai.

NPR Music's Stephen Thompson bring us new music each week. Today he introduces us to the Portland, Oregon, band Typhoon through the song, "Young Fathers."

A drought in its third year in parts of western Kansas is taxing the High Plains Aquifer. The aquifer is running low in places, forcing a move to dryland farming — that is, farming without irrigation.

The World Humanitarian Day campaign is designed to let people support the ideas they feel the world needs most. It began five years ago, when the United Nations set aside Aug. 19 to remember the world's aid workers.

Parents in some rural Alabama counties are asking a federal court to block a new state law that gives tax breaks to families who transfer out of failing schools. They argue that their children aren't getting a fair shot at a quality education.

Investors appear to once again be interested in the relative safety of U.S. stocks. A Bloomberg analysis shows investors pulling money out of emerging markets while simultaneously boosting purchases of U.S. equities.

In New York, federal prosecutors have charged an art dealer in connection with $80 million worth of forged art. John Myatt, a convicted forger, explains how artists fool auction houses and museums.

A British teenager won the men's U.S. Amateur Golf Championship in Massachusetts on Sunday. In a way, it makes up for what happened on the same golf course in 1913.