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The former president remained holed up with his thousands of supporters, far from where authorities ordered him to begin his 12-year prison sentence for corruption Friday evening.

NPR's Skunk Bear blog received 300 nominations for our Golden Mole Award for Accidental Brilliance. We have a winner: Elizabeth Tibbetts found her luck, and scientific insight, in tiny insect faces.

The U.S. bank and two of its former bankers face criminal charges in connection with Malaysia's 1MDB scandal, which involves billions of dollars allegedly stolen from a development fund.

The aftermath of the earthquake on the island of Sulawesi has killed at least 1,200 people. Steve Inskeep talks to James Massola of The Sydney Morning Herald about recovery efforts.

Diwali — the Hindu festival of lights — has been blamed for cloaking New Delhi and other cities in unhealthy smog from massive amounts of fireworks that are set off day and night.

Down to only three players on the court, the University of Alabama men's basketball team came very close to pulling off the upset of a lifetime against Minnesota. Instead, the team will have to settle for one of the grittiest losing efforts ever.

In the Somali capital of Mogadishu, funerals have begun for those killed in Saturday's truck bombing. Officials caution the death would continue to rise from the nation's worst-ever attack.

The Houston Astros beat the Los Angeles Dodgers to capture their first World Series title in the franchise's 56-year history.

One month after large and destructive storms disrupted the U.S. economy, job creation rebounded somewhat and the unemployment rate fell again.

The stock market continued to lose ground Monday after Friday's steep drop, with the Dow Jones industrial average down nearly 1,200 points — its worst single-day drop.