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The songs of the year reflected deep needs — for safety, respect, money, self-definition, revolution — and often delivered their own form of satisfaction.

Mikhail Saakashvili first fled to his roof, then escaped a police van after protesters broke in. Wanted for allegedly aiding criminal groups, he has cast his arrest as a plot by Ukraine's president.

The solo composer and LCD Soundsystem's synth genius discusses her relationship to music, shifting gender identity and how each has informed the other in a successful and deeply introspective career.

Hundreds of NPR readers recounted their first memory of a news event. These are some of their stories.

If Karian Batista had $100, she would buy food. "I don't have enough for the kids," she says. Distributing cash, a growing trend in aid, gives people "dignity and choice," one organization says.

With a piano draped in spring flowers, Lara Downes plays a smart set of music, new and old, that offers the power of renewal.

Two courts issued separate prison sentences to a man who attacked two people with a samurai sword, fatally shot a former classmate, kidnapped a woman and led police on a six-day manhunt in 2020.

Across Indonesia, transgender women known as "waria" create community and look out for one another. Health care is a challenge, but one doctor is making a difference.

Hacienda San Pedro had harvested just 2 percent of its beans before Hurricane Maria blasted through. The ripple effects will continue — it is expecting to run out of beans in December.

In Wise Trees, a book by photographers Diane Cook and Len Jenshel, you'll see a holy tree in the middle of an Indian candy shop, a communal tree in Mozambique, a tree of tragedy in Cambodia.