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In the Democratic Republic of Congo an already bad humanitarian crisis worsens with the eruption of clashes between Hutu army troops and forces loyal to a renegade Tutsi general.

Author Attica Locke's novel Black Water Rising is a murder mystery set in a racially divided Houston in 1981. As part of NPR's look at the Houston of 2009, NPR's Steve Inskeep and Locke take a boat ride down the Buffalo Bayou — the scene of an eerie episode in her youth.

The storm is expected to continue toward China after crossing over Taiwan. Authorities in the Chinese city of Shantou in Guangdong province are advising residents to take precautions.

Pope Benedict's state visit to Britain continued on Sunday with an open-air mass in the city of Birmingham, where the pope proclaimed the beatification of Cardinal John Newman.

Speed is not the strong point of India's Ambassador automobile. Nor is style. But it still seems like the right fit for the crowded streets of New Delhi, a city of 14 million people and a growing number of foreign imports.

Bloomington Police brought in 217 weapons in a gun buyback program on Sunday. The tally for the no-questions-asked cash event included 66 handguns, 66 rifles, 56 shotguns, 25 assault-style weapons, and four so-called ghost guns that are assembled from parts and do not have a traceable serial number.

In the Israeli town of Sderot, less than a mile from the Gaza Strip, there are remnants and recollections of carnage from Hamas' ongoing attack.

Thousands of people lined the streets of the city of Kolkata on Sunday as a large white hearse, festooned with red flags bearing the hammer and sickle, slowly carried away the man known as India's "Marxist patriarch."

Millions of people on the East Coast got shaken up Friday morning — a magnitude 4.8 earthquake made the region tremble. The epicenter was in Lebanon, N.J.

Rescue teams worked searching for dozens of construction workers buried under the rubble after a multi-story apartment complex that was being built collapsed in a coastal city in South Africa.