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Al-Qaida-linked gunmen stormed a hotel popular with Westerners in Ouagadougou, taking more than 120 hostages Friday night, officials say. Security forces have now taken back the hotel.

For the second year in a row, the Oscar nominees for acting categories are decidedly — white. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with film critic and interviewer Bobby Rivers about the pallid list.

Arthur MacMillan is the Tehran deputy bureau chief at Agence France-Presse. He gives some insight about how the prisoner swap and nuclear deal is being perceived in Iran.

NPR's Sonari Glinton tells Michel Martin about week one of the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

Roxana Saberi, a journalist who was imprisoned in Iran in 2009, discusses the recent release of American prisoners in the country.

His State of the Union address said we should be able to wipe out malaria. Progress has been enormous — but researchers are alarmed by new twists.

The four Americans who were part of a prisoner exchange have been released, a senior administration official says, and those who wished to depart Iran have left. A fifth prisoner was also released.

This weekend saw a prisoner swap between Iran and the U.S., and the arrival of "Implementation Day," when the international nuclear pact with Iran goes into effect. Reactions to the news varied.

Aid arrived in the besieged town of Madaya, as well as two other towns, on Monday. Meanwhile, the U.N. is drawing attention to the hundreds of thousands of Syrians they still can't reach.

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Gov. Martin O'Malley debate Sunday in Charleston, S.C. The Democratic race has is close between Clinton and Sanders.