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A teacher who instills a love of books and writing has beaten out 5,000 educators around the world for a global honor.

Joe Buford, 63, has a high school diploma but kept a secret, even from his family: He couldn't read. He managed to fool others into thinking that he could. And he was terrified that his inability would be passed on to his kids.

Scientists say Limacina helicina, which moves much like a fruit fly, represents a "remarkable" evolutionary convergence. Its ancestors and those of flying insects diverged some 550 million years ago.

The Virgin Galactic Spaceship Two was undergoing a test flight when it crashed in the California Desert. The spaceship is designed to take tourists to space.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month and The Education Trust advocacy group is urging school districts and educators in Arkansas to continue to focus and invest in K-12 students' social, emotional, and academic development and mental health support.

This month's harvest moon will not only coincide with a supermoon, but also with a blood moon and partial lunar eclipse.

The volcano may have been primed to erupt before the magnitude 8.8 quake pushed it over the edge.

On Easter Friday, Christian worshippers in Brazil will carry a plastic effigy of the crucified Christ and hum not hymns, but their favorite songs by a pop superstar Roberto "The King" Carlos.

Colin Barrett's debut collection deals with some dismal topics. But Tessa Hadley, who picked the book for our Weekend Reads series, praises the Irish writer's "lovely, high-flown, playful" writing.

Poet Lee Bennett Hopkins edited the new children's book, in which poets reflect on paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Rather than describing the painting, it's what they feel," he says.