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Zouheir Jabbour says all the reports coming out of Syria are "absolutely wrong." He said the videos and accounts of carnage are fabrications.

Eye glasses with computing power have long been sci-fi fantasy, relegated to Terminator movies and the like. But now it appears Google may be a few months from selling a beta version of their own.

Seattle has one of the country's few working movie theater organs. Jim Riggs plays the theater's Wurlitzer organ while silent movies are screened. Recently he performed during a screening of 1927's Wings, the only silent film to win the Academy Award for Best Picture.

There's new controversy over the New York Police Department's intelligence-gathering tactics after documents surfaced detailing information on Newark mosques and Muslim-owned businesses. Activists see it as an overly broad investigation of law-abiding Muslims, while local officials are upset by the department's reach outside New York City.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged $10 million in U.S. aid for Syrians and had more tough words for the country's president. Clinton says there's consensus that Bashar Assad should silence his guns, but debate continues over arming the opposition and other steps that could help Syrians.

Islamists dominated the recent parliamentary elections in Egypt, and some Christians say they fear they will face discrimination and threats from the Muslim majority.

After more than a century, the gunfight that made lawman Wyatt Earp famous continues to draw more than half a million tourists to the dusty Arizona town each year.

In his latest novel, Thomas Mallon takes a fresh look at the scandal that brought down the Nixon administration, re-imagining it through the eyes of the cast of characters involved.

World leaders are becoming sharper in their denunciation of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, calling for him to stop military action against his own people. Host Scott Simon talks with Aram Nerguizian from the Center for Strategic and International Studies about the capabilities of the Syrian army.

The small Greek town of Soufli is hoping to revive a long-dead local economy, silk production, as a way to bring tourists to northeastern Greece. NPR's Joanna Kakissis profiles a father and son who have built a private museum and sell silk products.