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For background on the situation in Mali, Steve Inskeep talks to Corinne Dufka, West Africa Director for Human Rights Watch. NPR National Security Editor Phil Ewing says 6 Americans were at the hotel.

In Mali's capital, Bamako, gunmen have taken more than 100 hostages at a Radisson hotel. NPR's Phil Ewing and Ofeibea Quist-Arcton explain what is known about the attacks and the crisis in progress.

Jennifer Lawrence returns as Katniss in the final film adaptation of Suzanne Collins' dystopian Hunger Games novels. Critic David Edelstein says that the saga ends "less with a bang than a whimper."

Fans express support as well as opposition after the lead character of the hit ABC drama is shown undergoing an emotional procedure.

Ernest Hemingway's memoir A Moveable Feast is being celebrated for what it, in turn, celebrates: Paris as an exciting place of ideas, a nexus of people who love life and the arts.

The party animals of Europe made festive, elaborate centerpieces from food from medieval times through the 18th century. Among the most notable of their table art traditions is the sugar monument.

The Rusty Radiator and Golden Radiator awards honor the worst and best of fundraising videos. Take a look at this year's losers and winners.

The winter season finale for the hit ABC TV show, Scandal, featured the lead character seemingly getting an abortion. That's highly unusual for network television and an invitation to controversy.

The creators of The Bitten Word food blog publish an annual survey of Thanksgiving recipes suggested by food magazines. This year, there were lots of ancient grains and citrus-flavored desserts.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Robert Siegel in Paris one week after the terror attacks there. Some key suspects in the attacks are dead, but many questions remain.