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Nigeria produces so much oil that just the possibility of trouble there affects world markets. Prices first approached $60 a barrel after this summer's threat to the U.S. consulate. Oil first hit $50 last fall after another news item from Nigeria. A Niger Delta rebel ordered all oil companies out of the country.

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.

She's best known for her original songwriting, but her cool, insinuating delivery is perfect for classics, too. She visits NPR's Studio 4A for a performance from her latest album, The Cole Porter Mix — plus a certain Valentine's Day standard.

Fifty of the filmmaker's photographs are on display in Los Angeles, paired with the music that inspired them: Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse's Dark Night of the Soul.

A nearly 10,000-piece Hawaiian music collection was donated to the state's archives by the family of Michael Scott. His will stipulated that it go someplace where it can be accessible to the public.

Grenades and rocket launchers are federally classified as firearms and are therefore legal with proper registration. But in California, possessing a destructive device is illegal.

Traffic in northern San Diego County came to a standstill Friday after an armored car accidentally spilled $1s and $20s across the I-5, prompting people to flee their vehicles and grab wads of cash.

India's Taj Mahal has been called a poem in stone, a moon-white dream, a tear on the face of humanity. Susan Stamberg visits the world-famous crown palace, built 350 years ago.

A Colorado man who Yellowstone National Park officials say got too close to a bison was thrown by the animal while trying to get himself and a child away from danger.

The coalition did not name the person but identified him as one of the top leaders of the extremist group's Syria branch.