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President Obama addressed the nation after explosions at the Boston Marathon left multiple people injured on Monday.

The European Union begins a rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine to its nearly 450 million people. A 101-year-old nursing home patient became Germany's first vaccinated person.

New Orleans is struck by another round of street killings, with five people gunned down in the city Friday night. The killings come nearly a month after multiple killings drove the state to seek troops from the National Guard.

The accidental derailment of a subway train kills at least 30 people in Valencia, Spain. The initial indication is that the train was traveling too fast and lost a wheel. The accident occurred at the 1 p.m. rush hour, when Spanish workers return home for lunch.

A rally in Phoenix on Monday drew hundreds of people marching in favor of immigrants' rights. But the rally was far smaller than the massive crowds that gathered for a similar event in April. And this time, there was a lot more opposition.

President Bush begins his second term, urging Americans to expand the frontiers of freedom around the world and challenging young people in particular to "serve in a cause larger than your wants." The speech was the centerpiece of a day devoted to tradition and tribute.

In northern Sri Lanka, tsunami survivors are going back to their regular jobs, schools are reopening, and people are struggling to resume normal lives. NPR's Jason Beaubien reports.

An American patrol found 18 bodies -- all males -- in an abandoned minibus Tuesday night on a road between two notorious west Baghdad neighborhoods. The bodies of at least 23 people have been found dumped throughout Baghdad in the last day.

In the Darfur region of Sudan, thousands of people have died and a million have been driven from their homes as result of what many are calling ethnic cleansing or even genocide. Hear NPR's Susan Stamberg, photographer Marcus Bleasdale, and Dr. Jennifer Leaning of Physicians for Human Rights.

More than 35 people are killed and dozens more are wounded in a car bomb attack on a recruiting center for Iraq's security forces in Baghdad. The blast, which occurred during the morning rush hour, destroyed nearby cars and damaged buildings. Hear NPR's David Sweeney.