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The current New Zealand flag (left) hangs next to the alternative flag on a building site in Wellington on March 4. New Zealanders began voting March 3 on whether to adopt a new flag.

The People Have Spoken: No New Flag For New Zealand

Ten months and 10,000 flag submissions later, New Zealanders decided to just keep what they had.

Bosnian Serb wartime leader Radovan Karadzic sits in the courtroom for the reading of his verdict Thursday in The Hague.

Former Bosnian Serb Leader Radovan Karadzic Guilty Of Genocide, War Crimes

U.N. judges found Karadzic was responsible for genocide in Srebrenica and nine other charges, including murder, terror and unlawful attacks on civilians during the war in Bosnia in the 1990s.

Mayor Don Guardian examines an artist's rendering of a boardwalk reconstruction project in October. Without a cash infusion, Guardian says all nonessential city services will shut down on April 8.

Atlantic City Faces Financial Collapse, Cringes At State Takeover

The mayor says his town, known for its boardwalk casinos, will run out of money soon. State lawmakers have a plan to get the city's finances under control, but city leaders say it's a bad deal.

This piece of what is believed to be aircraft wreckage was found early this month off the coast of Mozambique.

New Debris 'Almost Certainly' From Missing Malaysian Flight MH370

Air crash investigators have looked at debris found on the coast of Mozambique and say it "almost certainly" came from the missing Malaysia Airlines plane.

Hillary Rodham Clinton back in 1996 talking to reporters outside the U.S. District Court in Washington after testifying before a grand jury investigating Whitewater.

This 20-Year-Old Clinton Interview About Goldwater, Whitewater Echoes Today

In 1996, NPR's Scott Simon interviewed first lady Hillary Clinton about her battles with Republicans and her own time as a young booster of Barry Goldwater.

Who can identify TB faster: lab technicians for APOPO such as Karim Chang'a, Rehema Kondo, Eustachian Sezary, or a rat like Chewa? No contest — it's the rat.

Chewa The Lab Rat Has A Great Job, Good Retirement Benefits

Rats can smell TB. They can identify it faster than a lab technician. And they work cheap — a bit of banana will do. USAID just gave a grant to a pioneering program.

Disney and other companies have threatened to stop film production in Georgia if the state's controversial "religious liberty" bill becomes law. AMC Networks, which films <em>The Walking Dead</em> in Georgia, has also spoken out against the bill.

Time Warner, Others Join Disney In Opposing Georgia's 'Religious Liberty' Bill

Disney and its Marvel subsidiary have threatened to boycott the state if the governor signs the controversial measure. Other companies are now urging the governor to veto the bill.

In 2010, scientists plopped the genetic material of one <em>Mycoplasma</em> bacterium into another type to create the self-replicating cells shown above. Six years later, they've come out with an even simpler synthetic organism that has fewer genes.

Scientists Build A Live, No-Frills Cell That Could Have A Big Future

In engineering the cell, researchers paired away nearly all genes that weren't essential to life. It might eventually serve as a basic framework for different sorts of cellular factories, they say.

The Google Chrome extension is similar to a spell check function, except instead of flagging misspelled words, it identifies insults and hateful messages and then prompts the user to write something else.

This New Chrome Extension 'Rewords' Hateful Online Messages

Aimed at preventing cyberbullying, the online tool, called Reword, flags insulting phrases and crosses them out with a red line. So far, the product is available for Google's Chrome web browser.

Justice Department Charges 7 Iranians For Hacking U.S. Banks

The Justice Department is charging seven Iranians with alleged cyber attacks against American banks and an attempt to take over control of a dam in New York.

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