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According to a report published last year, black students in the UK performed better on national exams than was expected of them — yet very few Britons of African or Caribbean origin can be found at Oxford and Cambridge. Huw Evans of The Root analyzes the report's implications, and says that a sharp increase in tuition fees could make it even less likely for black students to attend British universities.

Hollywood exits 2009 on a high note, with both expensive blue aliens and artful war dramas having left a vivid impression on audiences and critics alike. And the year's $10.5 billion take at the box office is no sneeze-at number, either. Critic Bob Mondello looks back at the year in pictures.

Curious Traveler Season 6 is here!

George Washington University in Washington, D.C., recently set the record for the highest cost for a year of education. Classes and room and board now run over $50,000 a year. Robert Siegel talks with Stephen Joel Trachtenberg, president of George Washington University, about why the school charges so much.

Since starting NPR's Backseat Book Club, Michele Norris has been swimming in "kid lit." The five stories on her year-end list will seep into your heart and leave you thinking about the characters long after you've turned the final pages.

China is reacting to last week's arrest of Meng Wanzhou, a top executive at Huawei, one of the world's largest telecom companies. She was arrested in Canada at the request of the U.S.

Top al-Qaida suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has admitted to organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, according to the transcript of a hearing released Wednesday. The transcript of a military hearing held last Saturday at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, was released by the Pentagon.

See a preview of Poldark, Season 3, Episode 6.

See a preview for the Season 2 finale of The Durrells in Corfu!