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Kenneth Branaugh is back as Hercule Poirot, and it's hard not to enjoy his company in this unusually spooky murder mystery based on Agatha Christie's 1969 novel Hallowe'en Party.

Euro zone finance ministers are in Brussels to consider what to do about Ireland. The Irish government is considering ways to tackle its debt crisis. Fears are growing that the issue might prove contagious, and could threaten the euro. Ireland dismisses speculation it's about to become the second euro zone nation after Greece to request assistance from its partners.

As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton visits India, there are concerns that the Obama administration doesn't care enough about India and is preoccupied with U.S. interests in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer held a rare meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. The visit by a bipartisan delegation represents political engagement absent during the pandemic.

Biographer Amanda Vaill's new book delves deeply into the lives of journalists like Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn, whose documenting of the war helped shape public perception.

Writer Kevin Roose followed eight new bankers through their first years on Wall Street. Reviewer Drew Toal says the book has a "solid sense of finance's corrosive day-to-day effects."

U.S. officials are urging Pakistan to reform its Inter Services Intelligence spy agency. Pakistanis don't like taking orders from the U.S., but there are those who agree the ISI needs reforming. Recently the new prime minister attempted this, but he got cold feet.

For months, a real murder case has been playing out in a small Australian town, where three people died after eating a family meal that was suspected to contain death cap mushrooms.

A picture of Ben Brody, 22, began circulating on social media, accusing him of being involved in a brawl between right-wing extremist groups. Brody says he made several attempts to clear his name.

Silicon Valley executives have said the cuts are a result of pandemic over-hiring and still-historically high inflation. But others say something else may be behind the mass layoffs.

38-year-old Maynor Yassir Suazo Sandoval came to the U.S. to make something of himself and to help his family in Honduras. He was one the workers on the Francis Scott Key Bridge when it collapsed.

The FAA says it is investigating a whistleblower's claims about flaws in the assembly of Boeing's 787 Dreamliner. The company calls those allegations inaccurate, and insists the plane is safe to fly.

Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees in an internal memo that the AI tool's problematic images were unacceptable. He vowed to re-release a better version of the service in the coming weeks.

In her fierce second novel, Sarah Manguso writes a requiem for a failed relationship from the point of view of a survivor, the wife left behind.

Thalia Graves alleges Combs and his bodyguard, Joseph Sherman, raped her, recorded the attack without her knowledge and later distributed the video as pornography in the 11th suit against him.

Atlanta Journal-Constitution reporter Jeremy Redmon shares the latest following yesterday's deadly school shooting in Winder, Georgia.

Novelists Patricia Marx and Meg Wolitzer take a fresh look at romance, while Samuel Park explores how its fallout leads to an unlikely immigration trajectory for his Korean heroine. In nonfiction, James Gleick explores information theory, Antonio Damasio rethinks consciousness, and Joshua Foer investigates the nature of memory.

News from Mosul has been scarce since the Islamic State took power. Speaking by phone, Iraqis say the group has imposed strict controls that are alienating residents and are providing few services.

The watchdog's reporting comes in the wake of several high-profile deaths in federal lockups in recent years, most notably the murder James "Whitey" Bulger and the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein.

A messed up roll-out for the nation's key financial aid form has left guidance counselors scrambling to help confused families.

NPR's Asma Khalid talks to Vladmir Milov, an adviser to imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who resurfaced on Christmas Day nearly three weeks after associates lost contact with him.

One person died in the violence that broke out at the end of the Kansas City Super Bowl celebration. 43 year old Elizabeth Galvan was a radio DJ, and well known in the community.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Aaron Mackey with the Electronic Frontier Foundation — a nonprofit which advocates for civil liberties in the digital world — about warning labels on social media.

Prosecutors say former President Donald Trump conspired to alter the outcome of the 2016 election by paying hush money to bury negative stories, and then covered it up by falsifying business records.

The new communication between Scholz and Putin — their first since December 2022 — comes at a time of speculation about what the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump will mean for Ukraine.