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Lagos is the commercial capital of Africa's most populous country, but the booming city is unprepared for the influx of those searching for a better life.

Colombia's capital is home to 11 million people — and to some of the worst traffic jams in the world. Now Chinese companies are building its first metro line.

Stone wrote eight novels, including Dog Soldiers, and a memoir. He died Saturday at the age of 77. In 1986 and 2007, Stone talked with Terry Gross about, among other things, writing and his childhood.

Cookbook author Diane Morgan says there's much more to a carrot than the orange part. But too often, she says, the root vegetable's frilly green fronds end up in the trash.

Not paying someone for a job they did is illegal. It's called wage theft. But in California, the worst offender has paid only a tiny fraction of the millions of dollars in wages he owes workers.

At a congressional hearing, Dr. Anthony Fauci said the CDC recommendation to stay 6 feet from others to ward off infection was not based on data. Does that mean keeping a distance won't protect you?

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican, has been testing the limits of how much his state can do to curb unauthorized migration. But Abbott's sweeping crackdown hasn't always gone as planned.

Witnesses said armed militants opened fire on workers at a quarry in the northeast part of the country. At least 36 died. The country's police chief resigned, and the interior minister was fired.

Officials on Kauai have created a website to help tourists find transportation options as the island experiences a shortage of rental cars.

Book critic MAUREEN CORRIGAN gives us her Holiday picks for the best books to buy as presents: "Angela''s Ashes" by Frank McCourt (Scribner) "Great Books" by David Denby (Simon & Schuster)"Committed to Memory," a collection of 100 best poems in English, edited by John Hollander"Life As We Know It" by Michael Berube (Pantheon)"Mason''s Retreat" by Christopher Tilghman"Derby Dugan''s Depression Funnies" by Tom DeHaven"A Letter From Mary" by Laurie R. King.