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In light of a recent Pew study that says most Americans are no longer middle-class, NPR's Michel Martin argues that when the middle thins, the ends of the spectrum must yell just to hear each other.

Security forces killed scores of people in Burundi in December. Now Amnesty International says images suggest that victims were buried in mass graves, possibly to cover up the extent of the killings.

The hot gift this Christmas season is a hoverboard — those two wheeled electronic scooters. But they have been catching fire. The boards and the danger result from a new kind of manufacturing process on the rise in China.

The number of people living in Nigeria's most populous city, Lagos, is set to double in coming years. Developers are creating a new city on what was until recently the ocean. It will cater to the super rich, which critics say will only exacerbate an already severe wealth gap.

Residents along the Mississippi River are mopping up after deadly floods swamped areas in Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee. In Eureka, Mo., it could be months before things are back to normal.

David Greene talks to Peter Nichols, author Oil and Ice, a book about a fleet of 33 whaling ships trapped in Arctic ice. Whalers and their families had to escape in tiny rowboats through miles of ice.

The latest news from Paris, just over a week since the attacks that left 130 people dead.

NPR's Kelly McEvers talks to Jessica Lewis McFate, research director at the Institute for the Study of War, about what needs to be done after ISIS is kicked out of a city to keep it from coming back.

Despite the big stars, it's hard to make a straight-faced parody of something watched by people who often already think it's a joke.

NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro dons a costume and participates in a Carnival parade in Brazil.