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Egyptair flight MS804 vanished Thursday en route to Cairo from Paris. Mary Louise Kelly talks to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and Russell Lewis as well as Tamer El-Ghobashy of The Wall Street Journal.

Nicholas Winton arranged safe passage from Czechoslovakia for more than 600 Jewish children on the eve of World War II. Winton died last year at 106. A memorial is being held Thursday in London.

Sixty-six people were on the plane when it disappeared during a flight from Paris to Cairo. Renee Montagne talks to NPR's Eleanor Beardsley and Russel Lewis, and to Alex Macheras, an aviation analyst.

Despite Florida still being the center of the nation's foreclosure crisis, state officials chose not to apply for $250 million in federal foreclosure…

Scientists have been watching a large toxic algal bloom in Lake Okeechobee.They worry the bloom could spread from the state's largest lake through man-made canals to coastal estuaries like the Indian River Lagoon.

EgyptAir says there were 66 people aboard Flight MS 804 when it disappeared from radar in the early hours of the morning. No debris from the plane has been found so far.

Dr. Siddhartha Mukherjee says genetics play a significant role in identity, temperament, sexual orientation and disease risk — but that environment also matters. His new book is The Gene.

Biologist Justin Schmidt has traveled all over the world looking for bugs ... and getting stung by them. He documents his travels/travails in his new book The Sting of the Wild.

For Pascal Baudar, LA is a treasure trove of edible plants and insects that he uses in unusual culinary creations. He helps some of the city's top chefs put wild foods on menus and has a new cookbook.

Indian cities are among the world's most polluted. And India is the third-largest emitter of carbon dioxide. If it finds a sustainable way to develop, it could be a template for the rest of the world.