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Your phone can now be programmed to tell when you are bored. Researchers from Telefonica Research in Barcelona, Spain, say an algorithm they have developed could be used to push content to you when you're looking for something interesting to do. On the other hand, it could also be used to encourage you to put your phone down and go find some other way to be productive.

Commentator Andrei Codrescu notes the complicity of the Romanian Orthodox Church in both World War II and Communist-era wrongs. Now the church is giving big new construction projects to politically connected contractors.

Weekend airstrikes severely damaged several buildings in Gaza. On Sunday, an apartment tower in Gaza City was brought down. Israeli officials say Hamas had an operations room in the building.

An ambitious new project just offshore from the United Arab Emirates capital city of Dubai hopes to re-create the geography of the globe. The project, named "The World," consists of 300 man-made islands grouped roughly into continents and countries.

Despite Pyongyang's pledge to denuclearize, The Washington Post reports that U.S. satellite imagery shows it is producing more ballistic missiles.

With the airlines packing more people into planes, "recliner rage" is on the rise. Is it a problem of entitled passengers, or just too many of us squeezed into small spaces?

Tens of thousands of people demanding action on climate change are expected to march in New York City, ahead of the UN Climate Summit. Joel Rose speaks with NPR's Wade Goodwyn from the protests.

An iconic part of Laconia’s downtown will soon be reborn.In a deal announced this week, the Belknap Economic Development Council will purchase the…

Daniel Libeskind, the architect behind the master plan for rebuilding ground zero, says he sees the site as a cultural response to the attacks of Sept. 11. In coming up with his design, he turned to icons of America -- the Statue of Liberty, the Declaration of Independence and poet Walt Whitman. Libeskind speaks with NPR's Brian Naylor for the final installment of the Intersections series.

A firm that helps cities revise their image presented its findings on Nashua’s strengths and weaknesses at a public meeting Tuesday night.Adam Winstead is…