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Though broadcast TV didn't impress him much this year, critic David Bianculli says Better Call Saul and a number of other shows from cable and streaming services made 2015 a great year for viewers.

Host Ophira Eisenberg and house musician Jonathan Coulton ring the bell for recess, and take classic games to the next level in "Playground Nationals."

Some are sad; some are happy. All of them are worth a few minutes of your time.

For more than a decade, a rowing coach in Oregon has been teaching teenagers the value of hard work with tough love that sticks.

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Sune Engel Rasmussen, who covers Afghanistan for the Guardian, about the latest on the siege of Sangin in southern Afghanistan, which the Taliban attempted to overrun. U.S. aircraft have carried out two attacks there in support of Afghan government forces fighting to push the Taliban back.

This Christmas, after the recent terrorist attacks, Parisians pass by soldiers as they go to church. Amid huge security, they're starting to return to theaters and concerts, but tourism is down.

This clerically named quaff plays a starring role in Scrooge's transformation in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Port, its key ingredient, also tells a story of English politics and class identity.

British astronaut Tim Peake has apologized for dialing a wrong number and saying, "Hello, is this planet Earth?" Peake insisted that he was not playing a joke on the woman he rang by accident.

This eggnog-like beverage contains pisco; sweetened, condensed milk and a special syrup from a tree Peruvians call "the tree of life."

The father of toddler Aylan Kurdi calls for "the whole world to open its doors to Syrians" fleeing the country's bloody civil war.