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For the last 10 years, guitarist Ben Chasny has been recording as Six Organs of Admittance, lacing passionate and largely instrumental guitar-ragas with shorter passages that hint at a gift for simple, direct melodies. "Shelter from the Ash" pushes prettiness to the fore.

Also: Tens of thousands take to streets of Tunis for funeral of slain opposition leader; car bombings target Shiites in Iraq; EU leaders try to reach budget deal; Bush family's emails are hacked.

Some young people in India's heartland are aggressively pursuing new opportunities; others are mired in poverty. They work and hope and pray for a better life along the Grand Trunk Road that crosses South Asia, the focus of a new NPR series.

Some of today's best world music acts spring from the discovery of an obscure passion. For brothers Zac and Ethan Holtzman, leaders of the band Dengue Fever, it was 1960s Cambodian pop music.

Also: Libya's prime minister is briefly abducted, then set free and 16-year-old Malala Yousafzai is awarded the Sakharov Prize.

President Obama sent a broadside Monday across the bow of those companies that now avoid taxes by keeping much of their business on the books of offshore subsidiaries. The practice is perfectly legal right now, but the White House wants that to change.

As part of our Take Two series on people re-inventing themselves through their work, we visit John Scanlan, 43. Scanlan abandoned an engineering career in hopes of using a law degree to help others. But all has not gone according to plan.

(Contra Costa Times) // Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds, two power players in the tobacco industry, have donated more than tens of millions of dollars to…

The 78th Emmy Awards are Monday night. See the stars as they arrived.

Also: 'March for Life' rally brings thousands to D.C.; Boeing 787 Dreamliner's problems remain a mystery; anniversary of revolution sparks clashes in streets of Cairo; North Korea warns the South.

Oakland City Council approved a 14% wage increase over the next five years for Oakland police.

California's clean-technology investment is growing, according to a report released today by SF-based nonprofit Next 10, a nonprofit promoting awareness…