Ben Carson is the dicrector or pediatric neurosurgery at JohnHopkinHospital. But when he was an inner-city fifth-grader, no one would have predicted he would ultimately obtain a scholarship to Yale and become a famous surgeon. At mid-term in the fifth grade, he had failed almost every subject. What took him from “zero” grades to a scholarship at a prestigious university? In the selection below Ben Carson tells about the “answer” his mother found to help him and his brother. Her “answer” ultimately changed his life forever.

Pakistan's prime minister is appealing to fellow Pakistanis to identify what he called the "black sheep" responsible for Saturday's devastating suicide bomb attack. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from Islamabad, where officials say at least 60 people have died and 250 others were wounded in the blast at the Islamabad Marriott.