Commentator Ann McBride Norton offers this audio postcard of how Christmas was celebrated in a remote Tibetan village. Services were held more than a week ago when the traveling priest was available to officiate.
Under the glare of the lights in New York's Time Square, a Nigerian chess master makes his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous chess game to raise money for children back home.
Juleus Ghunta is a published children's author and award-winning poet. But growing up in rural Jamaica, he could barely read. When he was about 12, a young teacher-in-training arrived at his school.