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Volunteers are preparing ballot boxes and Catalans are rallying in the streets of their capital Barcelona, a day before a non-binding vote on secession from Spain.

In the final years before the Berlin Wall fell, East Germans described their grievances on cassette tapes that were smuggled to West Berlin and then broadcast back to the east on Radio Glasnost.

A year ago, Super Typhoon Haiyan tore through the Philippines, leaving a path of destruction. In the city of Tacloban, the damage is less visible, but the effects of the typhoon are still present.

The agreement of the 21-member group, including the U.S. and Canada, would establish an informal information sharing network to track and detain corrupt officials.

Spain's northeast region voted overwhelmingly in favor of breaking away. But the result won't be recognized by Spain, which says the vote was illegal.

Kenneth Bae, one of two American captives released from a North Korea prison over the weekend, is back home in Washington state as his family and community celebrate his return.

A suicide bomber attacked a secondary school in the violence-torn region of northeast Nigeria. Dozens of students are reported to have been killed.

Former President George W. Bush sat down with NPR's David Greene to discuss a book he's written about his father, the other ex-President Bush. This week, we'll hear their conversation.

President Obama is calling on rule-makers to reclassify broadband as a public utility. It would give the FCC much broader authority to stop "fast lanes" and "slow lanes" to the Internet.

On Thursday, November 10, 1864 responding to a post- election victory serenade and buoyed by his recent re-election, a confident Abraham Lincoln noted,…