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The gunmen attacked a hotel and a cafe in Ouagadougou, the capital of the West African nation. The foreign minister says people have died. Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghreb has claimed responsibility.

The prepaid debit card company, co-founded by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons, will compensate customers who suffered a "financial setback" due to a technical problem earlier this month.

A report commissioned by Mayor Rahm Emanuel blames racial bias and a "code of silence" for the city's "broken" police system.

A female passenger tells a story about being overlooked when other passengers and crew disembarked an Air Canada flight to Toronto.

The Government Accountability Office released a report warning NASA that further delays in the space agency's commercial crew program could keep American astronauts from reaching the space station.

The former prime minister, who resigned after being disqualified from office in July, has pleaded not guilty along with his daughter and son-in-law in connection with the so-called Panama Papers.

For the shot to be accurate, many factors, from wind and gravity to the Earth's curvature, would have to be taken into account.

Though it's highly rare for a police officer to be handed such a heavy sentence, many expressed disappointment. Others see it as a winning precedent that promises future accountability.

2: Adventure writer TIM CAHILL. CAHILL writes in a self-deprecating way about his death-defying experiences around the world. His accounts of adventures in caves, mountains, deserts, and rapids appear in his collections, "A Wolverine is Eating My Leg,"and "Jaguars Ripped My Flesh." He's also a columnist for "Outside Magazine." Last summer, CAHILL traveled to the North Pole on an old Soviet Ice-breaker, and currently he is working on a book describing his travels in the unexplored and uninhabited Ndoke Forest of the northern Congo. (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 4/5/89.)Travel author and novelist, PAUL THEROUX. THEROUX is no ordinary travel writer: his books are about exotic voyages, some by train, and others by foot. His work includes "The Great Railway Bazaar," "The Old Patagonian Express," and "The Kingdom By The Sea." He's also a novelist, perhaps best known for "The Mosquito Coast," which became a film starring Harrison Ford. THEROUX'S most recent book, published this past February, is a fictional work titled "Millroy the Magician" (Random House). (RE-BROADCAST of interview first aired 7

In his new book, Birthright, author A. Roger Ekirch gives a historical account of the 18th-century kidnapping of 12-year-old British aristocrat James Annesley. The story captivated public attention and inspired at least five novels, including Robert Louis Stevenson's classic adventure tale Kidnapped.