“He was always so gentle and kind and friendly to me,” says professor Susannah Heschel, who met Martin Luther King Jr. a couple times as a little girl.

Each week on The World, we feature a unique selection of music, and every week, we put together the highlights for you here.

Witold Waszczykowski mistakenly told reporters at the UN that he'd met with various nations "such as Belize or San Escobar." Thing is, that's not a nation. The internet is having a field day.

The actor, who stars in a new movie about the Boston Marathon bombings, once made life hell for immigrants and African Americans on Boston’s racially divided streets.

Victims of online romance scams suffer some of the highest financial losses of any internet-based crimes, the FBI says.

The Mexican town of Juarez does not have a doughnut store. But there's a Krispy Kreme outlet just across the US border in El Paso, Texas.

As a rookie reporter in 1939, British journalist Clare Hollingworth got the scoop of the century: World War II. It was the start of a spectacular career for a woman in the historically male world of war reporting. She died Tuesday, age 105.

These "Blueprint Specials" were musical comedies meant to be performed by soldiers, for soldiers. Most of the songs were written by Frank Loesser, before he found fame with the musical "Guys and Dolls."

Some people say they remember Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s, years before he became South Africa’s president. A neuroscientist steps in to discuss the science behind real — and false — memories.

For a writer from Bangladesh, life in Pittsburgh is safer. But he feels that “I am in exile not just physically, my mind is also in exile.”