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I'm into piano, but it's also my frenemy. When I get frustrated with something I'm trying to learn, we stop talking for months. But then I hear a pop song and my brain leaps to how I would play it.

Its name alone is terrifying. But infections in humans are both rare and devastating. Here are five things to know about the microscopic brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer speaks with ESPN reporter Emily Kaplan about how consistent the Tampa Bay Lightning have been over the past three NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.

Lindsey Fitzharris' new book tells the true story of Harold Gillies, a British surgeon whose team worked to reconstruct the faces of some of the 280,000 men who suffered facial trauma during WWI.

Juliette Binoche is a woman whose life is disrupted by the return of a former lover. Both Sides of the Blade sounds like soap-opera material, but nothing about the film feels trite or predictable.

Egypt is about to get a new ruler. A caretaker head of state is being ushered into power Thursday following Wednesday's dramatic military coup. President Mohammed Morsi was forced from power just a year after winning the country's first free election. He lost the public's trust amid a failing economy and fears that he was imposing an Islamist agenda.

Diplomats are trying to arrange a new ceasefire in eastern Ukraine. But Ukraine's president is under domestic pressure to take decisive military action against pro-Russian separatists.

Maybe you won't pay several hundred dollars for a pair of sneakers, but there are a lot of people who will — providing they are the right sneakers. Demand for certain models has spawned a robust market for resellers — people who buy up the available supply and resell them for a profit.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks to Simona Cojocaru, State Secretary at Romania's Ministry of Defense, about the military situation in Ukraine.

Major League Baseball is finally beginning after a player lockout pushed the season start date back by a week. The NBA playoffs are almost here, while Tiger Woods makes a comeback.