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After 35 years together, the Emerson String Quartet is still making superb music. Hear them play part of one of Mozart's "Prussian" quartets.

When most people think "NBA," they think of the National Basketball Association. This year, in an attempt to maximize coverage, the National Book Foundation is releasing "long lists" of NBA nominees in different genre categories, one day at a time for a week.

A new study offers an intriguing way to calculate the answer.

Lawmakers in the state where a gunman killed 20 children and six educators at an elementary school last December have responded with legislation that bans assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines and requires background checks for purchasers.

The specter of doping continues to hang over the Pyeongchang Olympics as the competition starts this week. Olympic officials squabbled openly about the damage being done to the games.

Some analysts say the smartphone could become the best-selling gadget in history, eclipsing the Xbox Kinect, which sold some eight million units in two months.

Americans are not alone waiting for President Obama to announce his new strategy in Afghanistan. Afghans also are waiting to hear how the U.S. plans to tackle the crisis in their country, where violence and instability have worsened.

In less than a week, the votes will be counted in India's general election. No one is expecting an outright winner — that means leaders of smaller regional parties could become kingmakers. One of those aspiring kingmakers is a rich and powerful woman.

The Red Cross says hundreds of people have been killed in fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger separatists in Sri Lanka.

People along a wide swath of the Gulf of Mexico coastline are making preparations for Tropical Storm Isaac. The storm is headed toward New Orleans, and is scheduled to develop into a hurricane that could make landfall as early as Tuesday.