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The singer's album was released last May and spent 13 weeks at the top of the Billboard chart and was streamed more than 350 million times in the first week alone.

Those Darlins hooked up at the Southern Girls Rock 'n' Roll Camp, which bassist Kelley Darlin founded in 2003. Critic Robert Christgau is glad to see the band finally playing rock, as well.

The future of Kosovo again tops the agenda of the United Nations Security Council. The U.N. has been running the region ever since NATO helped end a Serb crackdown on ethnic Albanians there eight years ago. But Kosovo's Albanians are planning to declare independence, a move resisted by Serbia.

Nations have a duty to act on climate change under international law — and if they don't, they could be held liable. That's the ruling of the top United Nations court.

Also: Singer Phil Everly dies; passengers rescued in the Antarctic resume their trip home; and a man who won $174 million didn't realize his good fortune for weeks.

NPR Diplomatic Correspondent Ted Clark reports on the second day of the Millennium Summit at the UN, where the focus is on efforts to prevent conflict, especially in Africa.

Mike Donkin of the BBC reports that a U.N. panel has recommended sanctions against African nations that have gotten involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

NPR's Mike Shuster reports that despite warnings about the possibility of genocidal violence in Burundi, and frequent calls for a UN intervention force, the international community has been caught off-guard by the coup there, and is uncertain how to proceed.

Commentator Iain Guest says that the United States has a love/hate relationship with the United Nations these days...mostly because Americans haven't been given a clear idea of how the UN fits in with the foreign policy goals of the U.S.

Brooke talks with a U.N. official who provides an eyewitness description of yesterday's Iraqi attack on the northern Iraqi city of Irbil. He says it appears Iraqi troops are withdrawing from the city, where calm now prevails.