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For background on the situation in Mali, Steve Inskeep talks to Corinne Dufka, West Africa Director for Human Rights Watch. NPR National Security Editor Phil Ewing says 6 Americans were at the hotel.

The challenge from UNICEF: Make a wearable device that can improve health. And the winners are...

Deck the halls, stuff the stockings and sharpen your pencils. It's time for a holiday history exam.

The Carmel, Ind., high school girls swim team is poised to make history at state this year. A win will break the record for most consecutive wins for any high school team of any sport or any gender.

A Pew survey finds parents' worries vary widely based on income levels. Among other things, Pew also finds most parents — particularly young moms — think they're doing a good job raising their kids.

Kurt Masur, the German conductor whose career spanned from leading an orchestra in East Germany to more than a decade of reshaping the New York Philharmonic, has died at age 88.

The cause of Wall Street's flash crash has been debated ever since it happened. Officials arrested a lone trader working in his parents' London home, but some question whether he was really to blame.

The trial of the VSV-EBOV vaccine was called Ebola ça Suffit — French for "Ebola that's enough." Researchers say it's both effective and quick, with no new Ebola cases 6 days after vaccination.

Google recently came under sharp criticism after researchers found a major flaw in Android would let hackers take over smartphones. Now it's launching a new system to protect phones regularly.

The two men are from Eritrea. They're rising (and climbing) stars. And they're changing the image of the bike in Africa, where it's often looked down on as a poor person's transportation.