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James Murdoch said he was not accepting the bonus because of the phone hacking scandal that's rocked the company. He said it was "the right thing to do."

Weekends on All Things Considered guest host Laura Sullivan discusses the disappointing August employment numbers, as well as the President's upcoming jobs speech and more of the week's news with Los Angeles Times Washington columnist Doyle McManus.

The former Alaska governor and GOP vice presidential nominee addressed a Tea Party rally in Iowa on Saturday. She criticized both President Obama and Republican presidential candidates, but said nothing about her own plans to run, despite her cheering supporters.

Does coming home from a trip always seem to take less time than getting there, even though you're covering the same distance? The so-called "return trip effect" is a very real psychological phenomenon — and a new scientific study offers an explanation.

India's rapidly expanding middle class has created the demand for millions of new apartments in urban areas. But one recent case demonstrates the battle taking place between farmers who own valuable land and the new middle class.

NPR Morning Edition co-host Renee Montagne, who is reporting from Afghanistan, asks the Russian ambassador what lessons can be learned from the Soviet occupation of the country in the 1980s.

"I'm in it for the money." "It's a holiday. I'm still here." Summing up your work can be difficult — especially in six words. Smith Magazine has published a string of successful books in recent years with six-word memoirs. Contributors offer their life stories, brushes with fame, tales of love or pregnancy — and now their work story — in exactly six words. Magazine co-founder Larry Smith joins us as listeners share their six-word memoirs of work — from lessons learned to terrible bosses.

A large convoy of Libyan soldiers accompanied by Tuareg tribal fighters left the central Niger town of Agadez on Tuesday and drove toward the capital but it wasn't clear if Gadhafi family members were in the heavily armed group, the owner of a private newspaper said.

As the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks draws closer, we're pointing to some of the stories being told about that day and the days since.

Ten years after Sept. 11, 2001, we consider other clandestine assaults throughout history, from the Greek myth of the Trojan Horse, to the Sack of Rome, to the Revolutionary War and beyond. Why the element of surprise may have special power to topple civilizations.