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This year's Festival of the Word in Bogota will feature the usual authors and linguists — plus a professional tattoo artist. Some visitors can have spelling errors inked into their skin fixed, free.

She's a master multitasker: Angela Helena Carvalho de Sa dedicated many hours to working for Angola's underprivileged young people while studying for a degree in clinical psychology.

The 77-year-old was one of Bernard Madoff's first employees. He pleaded guilty three years ago to knowingly signing false documents, but has insisted that he thought the operation was legitimate.

The investigative agency said that a main metering jet had worked its way loose, allowing too much fuel to enter the carburetor and choking off power.

Leana Wen, Baltimore's new health commissioner, is trying to apply public health approaches to ameliorate the city's deep-seated problems with poverty, violence and disease.

The vast majority of Democratic voters believe that something needs to be done to combat climate change. So, the party's presidential candidates have been racing to tout their environmental plans — and to court environmentalist megadonor Tom Steyer.

In Brazil, the countdown has begun for the 2016 Summer Olympics. Brazilian organizers say everything is on track, but concerns persist over the water quality for some of the events.

The remains of two Japanese climbers reported missing on the iconic Alpine peak in 1970 have been positively identified by Swiss police.

Epidemiologist Gary Slutkin has taken the lessons he's learned fighting TB and HIV/AIDS and applied them to stop the spread of gun violence. Because like those diseases, violence is contagious.

The host of the political satire program for 16 years ended his run with many of the personalities who had either helped him make the jokes or been on the receiving end of them over the years.