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Matthew Hedges, 31, was detained at Dubai International Airport on May 5 after a two-week research trip for his doctoral thesis on Emirati security and foreign policy, according to his wife.

Of all the deaths by gunfire in Colorado, suicides account for about 80 percent. A coalition of doctors, public health researchers and gun shop owners are working together to prevent that self-harm.

An 18-year-old in Germany successfully obtained his license on Tuesday and celebrated — how else? — by going for a drive. He was promptly clocked by police going nearly twice the speed limit.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with counterterrorism expert Daniel Benjamin, a Dartmouth researcher and former State Department official, about U.S.-Saudi relations, and which country needs the other more.

Oil prices are tanking and there are many factors behind the drop. The price for one barrel of crude has fallen more than 25 percent since early October.

NPR's Audie Cornish speaks with actor Michael B. Jordan as he bookends his year in movies with a return as boxer Adonis Johnson in the sequel Creed II.

Hopes for a resolution to the U.S.-China trade war at the G20 summit look increasingly dim. The U.S. says Beijing's unfair trade practices continue, and China appears to be preoccupied with Germany.

Naser al-Shimary was born in Iraq but was brought to the U.S. as a small child. Swept up in an immigration raid, he was deported to Iraq and now faces threats in a land he hardly knows.

The tower in Italy tilted 13 feet toward the south. To stabilize it, work crews spent years removing earth beneath the north side. The tower has now started to measurably straighten.

Olivia Hooker was one of the last surviving witnesses of the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, and was the first African-American woman to join the U.S. Coast Guard.