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Jordanian soldiers fired on the service members' vehicles as they approached a military facility, a U.S. official tells NPR. It wasn't immediately clear why the soldiers opened fire.

U.K. Education Secretary Michael Gove has decided that the English literature list for a national exam needs to be more English, so he is swapping American texts in the curriculum for British ones.

Arizona-based World View Enterprises is planning the trips to 19 miles altitude — high enough to see the blackness of space and the curvature of the Earth.

Also: a poem about surveillance by Robert Pinsky; a Divergent-themed summer camp; an unexpected quote from Virgil graces the National September 11 Memorial Museum.

Australian writer Colleen McCullough has died at 77; she was best known for her doomed Outback romance saga The Thorn Birds, famously adapted for TV with Richard Chamberlain as a passionate priest.

The author of such books as The Black Tower was best-known for her series featuring Scotland Yard detective Adam Dalgliesh.

The restart of a reactor that produces weapons-grade plutonium was announced by the Korean Central News Agency, which also says North Korea is ready to use nuclear weapons "any time."

Our panelists predict what will be found in Hillary's email server.

The Airlander 10 — billed as the world's longest aircraft — took off from an airfield north of London this week. Yet it's the airship's bulbous, multi-chambered design that has captured attention.

The ruling is an embarrassment for Egypt's government, and a cause for celebration for protesters who saw the proposed handover as an incursion on Egypt's sovereign territory.