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MI6 may be the world's most legendary secret service, but fiction and film can't uncover its actual history. For that, you need BBC security correspondent Gordon Corera and his new book, The Art of Betrayal: The Secret History of MI6.

Sharon and My Mother-in-Law: Ramallah Diaries takes a good-humored look at life in the West Bank city over the past two decades. Author Suad Amiry tells Liane Hansen about the book.

Celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson was born in rural Ethiopia, adopted and then raised in Sweden. As a black chef, he was conscious of breaking through the racial barrier. The heat in the kitchen never let up. "Through that process of being yelled at in German, French and English and Swedish, I learned a lot," he says.

The bombs planted on U.S.-bound aircraft are widely believed to be the work of al-Qaida's affiliate on the Arabian Peninsula, based in Yemen. The failed attacks have raised some difficult questions: How should the U.S. and its allies now handle Yemen's fragile government to get it to do more to crush the militants? Should the U.S. use more military measures, like CIA drone attacks? What should the international community do to create conditions that would cause al-Qaida to wither away, and lead Yemen away from the brink of total collapse as a state?

French police arrested a man who targeted passersby in Paris on Saturday night, killing a German tourist with a knife and injuring two others, France's interior minister said.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Barbara Buffaloe, mayor of Columbia, Mo., who's part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors delegation at the summit, to talk about her city's effort to tackle climate change.

The United States looms large at the COP28 climate summit in Dubai. Historically, it's responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than any other nation. But it's also key for major breakthroughs.

Aviram Azari was sentenced to almost seven years in prison on Thursday. Azari directed a group of hackers that targeted thousands of victims globally, including U.S. climate activists.

As she nears the end of her own life, Nobel Laureate Doris Lessing is attempting to make some sense of her beginnings: Her new novel, Alfred And Emily, imagines a better life for her parents — one in which they marry different people.

High school is tough for almost every kid, but for new immigrants and refugees, it can be even harder. In The New Kids, journalist Brooke Hauser chronicles the lives of students enrolled in Brooklyn's International High School.