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European leaders hoped bailing out Ireland with a package worth $113 billion would stop the sovereign debt crisis from spreading to other countries that use the Euro. The bailout, however, didn't seem to restore the confidence of the bond traders, who invest much-needed funds today in hopes of turning a profit later.

Recent events in Tibet are being followed closely in India, which is thought to be home to at least 100,000 Tibetans — including the Dalai Lama. Now some of the Tibetan exile community are taking a harder line in pursuing their cause.

Venezuela's opposition leader plans to return to the country. The U.S. and more than 50 countries have been pressing for him to be the next president, but the current president won't resign.

His spokesman says it was an “oversight” that Harmon’s campaign funds took the money after the Oak Park Democrat voted to ban contributions from red-light camera operators.

Inside China, the government is cracking down on queer and feminist spaces. The Chinese-speaking diaspora is stepping up to create those spaces outside China.

In Oklahoma, some kids get sex education through their church because the state doesn't require the subject to be taught in public schools.

The view from atop a building taken over by protesters in Baghdad shows a sea of people with aspirations for a broad change in the country's political system.

NPR's Leila Fadel speaks to Israeli hostage negotiator Gershon Baskin about the fate of those people captured by Hamas, when militants attacked Israel.

Benjamin Alire Saenz won this year's PEN/Faulkner award for his latest collection of short stories, Everything Begins and Ends at the Kentucky Club. The real-life Kentucky Club is just south of the U.S.-Mexico border, and Saenz joined a reporter there to talk about life in two countries.

In a rare example of Taylor Swift's love life making headlines, fans are swooning over the superstar's potential new beau, footballer Travis Kelce.