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For the first time in history, all 10 acts on the "Billboard Top 10" are black. Nine of the 10 are rap acts, and the top spot is held by Pop/R&B songstress Beyonce and Dancehall Reggae star Sean Paul.

No album in the history of the Billboard album chart has ever had a longer gap between stints at No. 1. Elsewhere, Christmas music dominates for one last week.

Commentator Daniel Pinkwater says Barack Obama has the advantage over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination, because Obama talks in public as if he were talking in private. She doesn't.

Croatia does it again - winning a penalty kick shootout to advance to the semifinals for the second World Cup, eliminating Brazil. Croatia's defense stymied the 5-time champions the entire match.

With unemployment hovering around 80 percent and nearly 1 million people still homeless after the 2010 earthquake, it may be surprising to hear that education is a top priority for many Haitians.

When film companies report their opening weekend box office figures, they often include what are called "previews." 'T'wasn't always thus.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Karim Sadjadpour, Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about the assassination of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, Iran's top nuclear scientist.

The U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African affairs is expected to meet in Nairobi, Kenya, Monday with top leaders of Somalia's transitional government. Somalia's capital is under siege from an Islamist insurgency. The meeting will likely be tense because the president fired the prime minister but the prime minister says he isn't going anywhere.

Fortune magazine's annual rankings put Google at the top of the best companies for employees. The Wegman supermarket chain also gets high marks.

Scott Simon speaks with Melissa Kuypers, manager of operations at NPR West, about the 1986 movie "Top Gun," which she had never seen before.