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The era of the slide projector is all but forgotten in the digital age. Now a new exhibit at the Baltimore Museum of Art reminds us of how the simple mechanical device has the potential to astound and enlighten art lovers.

Google teamed up with the USGS, NASA and TIME magazine to release a stunning cache of satellite images compiled over the past 28 years.

Google teamed up with the USGS, NASA and TIME magazine to release a stunning cache of satellite images compiled over the past 28 years.

Music critic Christian Hoard reviews Show Your Bones, the new album by the rock group the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the follow-up to their wildly successful debut, 2003's Fever to Tell.

The massive explosion leveled the city's port and scattered debris across a road thousands of feet away. The blast killed at least 100 people and injured thousands more.

While war is still raging in Baghdad and Mosul, U.S. commanders have established some calm in parts of the Iraq countryside. Iraqis, including local Baathist heavyweights from the Saddam years, have stepped forward to fill such key positions as mayor and police chief. But to assert their authority, they feel they need more money from U.S. officials. At a meeting in Hammam al-Alil, a town south of Mosul, a rural police chief has learned that he can't have $400,000 to paint his station.

At Sunday's Tony Awards, fans will focus on actors, writers, directors and designers. But hundreds of others, whose names are less prominently displayed on the playbill, are a crucial part of the Broadway scene.

Off-Broadway shows had a great weekend as Broadway went dark because of striking stagehands. Tourists and regular theatergoers found their way to off-Broadway theaters, packing those smaller houses.

New government data released Thursday showed an economy that is growing again for the first time in a year. But the economy is receiving much support right now, and no one knows whether it is capable of growing on its own.

Preliminary results form last week's Afghan presidential elections show incumbent Hamid Karzai and his main challenger with roughly 40 percent each of the votes counted so far. There will be a runoff if neither candidate gets 50 percent of the vote.