When Australian singer-songwriter Kelly Dance moved to Hong Kong, she visited her local library and became immersed in Chinese science fiction. The strange, outlandish tales influenced her to write songs now appearing in her debut EP, "All That's Gained."

In 2010, tragedy struck in Haiti. And amid the chaos, Haitian music collective Lakou Mizik came together.

Nigeria's romance novels, known as "littattafan soyayya," shift between morality tales and pulp romance.

The Soulbury Stone has rested in the middle of a road in the small town of Soulbury, England for 11,000 years. And if residents have their way, it will sit there for eternity.

The band that started out as a love story produces an album after one of its members is gone.

Gato Barbieri was one cool cat, and it wasn't just the trademark fedora. He earned his nickname while sneaking in and out of nightclubs around Buenos Aires when he was a kid. He went on to be regarded as a master saxophonist and band leader. The World's Host Marco Werman has an appreciation.

A new book looks at the Spanish Civil War through the eyes of Americans who took up arms to fight there. Many viewed the conflict as a preluder to World War II.

In northern Mexico, there's a place called Copper Canyon. It cuts six slits into the Earth and hidden between the cliffs and valleys is where an American concert pianist has decided to settle with his one-ton grand piano.

China's state news agency, Xinhua, apparently decreed a ban on April Fools' Day this year calling it "inconsistent with core socialist values." This hasn't hampered Chinese netizens from joking about the ban on joking.

“If you think about 'Fiddler on the Roof' for example, there’s no scene where Tevye and his family are sitting around eating pastrami sandwiches,” says Merwin. “This was like the caviar of eastern European Jewish life.”