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French President Emanuel Macron has taken center stage in the ongoing Ukraine crisis, insisting on the centrality of Europe to diplomacy.

British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as The Caretaker and The Birthday Party and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday.

After a series of short films, beloved claymation characters Wallace and Gromit make their feature-film debut in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. NPR movie critic Bob Mondello says the stop-motion animated characters created by Nick Park are his favorite film heroes this year.

The 5 Browns, five piano-playing siblings, made history when all five -- Desirae, Deondra, Gregory, Melody and Ryan -- attended Juilliard at the same time. They have released their first recording.

TV critic David Bianculli reviews the premiere of the new season of Lost. The ABC series about a group of cataways on an island is going into its second season.

Music has played an important role in the Gulf region and the Mississippi delta, often elaborating on stories of natural and man-made disasters. The music has borne testament to upheaval over the centuries.

At Sunday night's Emmy awards, the retired sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond won for best comedy series and new hit Lost won for best drama.

His memoir is The Good, the Bad, and Me. Wallach's long career on stage and screen, included spaghetti westerns of the '60s and the Godfather trilogy. He won a Tony for his role in Tennessee Williams' Rose Tattoo. (This interview was initially broadcast on Nov. 13, 1990.)

Heard It on the X, the new album by Grammy winners Los Super 7, celebrates the golden age of radio along the U.S.-Mexico border.

'Moms' are a lot easier to find in American society today than 'mothers.' Robert Siegel talks with Asif Agha, associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, about how the decline of 'mother' can be traced to the extension of adolescence.