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India has overtaken Japan as home to the most billionaires in Asia. Yet it also has the world's largest population of hungry people, as one reporter's continuing journey down the Ganges River reveals.

English professor Natasha Trethewey has been named the 19th U.S. poet laureate. Poetry, she says, is something people can turn to for celebrating joys and mourning losses.

When you see a bunch of guys playing street basketball you might not just see a game. In his new book Black Gods of the Asphalt author Onaje Woodbine shows how it's also a spiritual experience.

The nation's unemployment rate is at its the highest level since 1983. The jobless rate for February stands at 8.1 percent after employers slashed 651,000 jobs. Both figures were worse than what analysts had expected. Since the recession began in December 2007, the economy has lost 4.4 million jobs.

One listener objected to what he heard in the report about the 1947 partition of India.

Listeners sent in their thoughts in response to a review of the highs and lows of the Bush presidency.

Kathy Lloyd of Pittsfield, Mass., submitted this Tomato Pie recipe in NPR's "How Low Can You Go" family supper challenge. She says it was her favorite dish growing up and she always asked for it for her birthday. The key? Fresh tomatoes and the gooey crust.

Ginsburg became the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.

Vitus Energy was on their way to their last fuel delivery in Nunapitchuk when the barge carrying gasoline got stuck in the ice. Although the diesel and stove oil shipments arrived, the village is waiting on the ice road to get their gasoline for winter.

It's rare for a WNBA team to win two championships in a row — it's been over two decades since it last happened. Wednesday night the Las Vegas Aces secured bragging rights as back-to-back champs.