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Tanzania's Information Ministry is installing high-speed internet on Africa's highest mountain. Right now climbers can use it at roughly 12,200 feet. Connectivity to the summit comes later this year.

Kaing Guek Eav, the former Khmer Rouge interrogator known as Duch, was brought to court in Cambodia for a pretrial hearing. It is the first public session of the U.N.-backed tribunal probing the regime's reign of terror in the 1970s. Duch, 66, is charged with crimes against humanity.

The gifted singer-songwriter performs tunes from her fourth full-length, See You on the Moon, and unpacks the personal ties to her highly narrative songs.

On Fragrant World, the band adopts a sparser sound. Hear Yeasayer perform live in the studio.

The 25th anniversary of the holiday special brings together keyboard players of all stripes. Harold Mabern, Kris Davis, Lynne Arriale and Cyrus Chestnut play seasonal favorites for solo piano.

The folk-pop singer's career stretches across two decades and the staying power to last a couple more. Hear her perform songs from the latest installment if her Close-Up series, live.

Lo-fi surf-rock's sweetheart released one of the most debated albums of 2010, Crazy For You. Hear the trio's sun-soaked pop live in the WXPN studios.

The Toronto band is back with a new album and a new drummer. Hear two tracks from its latest album, Light the Horizon, on "World Cafe: Next."

NPR's Rachel Martin speaks with composer Rhiannon Giddens about the Silkroad Ensemble. A couple of years ago she replaced famed cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the creative director of the ensemble.

Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield are the directors behind the hit nature-documentary series Planet Earth. Their new movie, Earth, uses some of the same footage — but it's "character-based" rather than "habitat based."