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The Booker Prize will be announced this coming Tuesday. One of the leading contenders is David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. With an experimental structure that incorporates six novellas, the question is whether this is a stunt or a true literary breakthrough. Martha Woodroof of member station WMRA reports.

The New Yorker's former Middle East correspondent has written a memoir: Prisoners: A Muslim & A Jew Across the Middle East Divide. Goldberg won the National Magazine Award for Reporting in 2003 for his coverage of terrorism.

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Keller Gordon, contributor and reporter for NPR's Join the Game, about burnout among professional Twitch streamers.

NPR's Philip Reeves reports that Sri Lankans are still coping with frustrations and inconveniences after a deadly tsunami struck in Southeast Asia nearly two months ago.

With the Iowa caucuses behind them, presidential candidates head to New Hampshire for some last-minute campaigning. Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving and Kevin Landrigan, senior political reporter at the Nashua Telegraph, discuss Tuesday's primaries.

NPR's Eric Weiner reports Filipinos went to the polls today in legislative elections that will test the legitimacy of their country's new president. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was not on the ballot but many of her supporters were. If they do well, the election will demonstrate public support for Arroyo who was never elected -- but rather swept into power by massive demonstrations that drove out previous president Joseph Estrada.

Continued attacks by Taliban militants and a generalized lack of security forced interim President Hamid Karzai to postpone plans for presidential and parliamentary elections. The vote, originally scheduled for June, has now been set for September. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

For many long months, fear has kept the Iraqi people indoors at night. While there's still danger, they are slowly starting to venture out in the evenings. NPR's Philip Reeves reports on nightlife at a Baghdad amusement park.

The small fishing village of Kattankudi on the east coast Sri Lanka was one of the worst hit by the Tsunami. It is now digging itself out, waiting for relief that has yet to come. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.

The outcome of Tuesday's election is not met with much optimism in Baghdad. Iraqis closely followed the U.S. vote, able to get more information than they could under Saddam. NPR's Philip Reeves reports.