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China's ruling Communist Party has announced that disgraced senior politician Bo Xilai has been expelled from the party and faces criminal charges. His fall began when a local police chief told authorities about the murder of a British businessman.

A decade ago, Botswana was facing a national crisis as AIDS appeared on the verge of decimating the country's adult population. Now, the country provides free, life-saving AIDS drugs to almost all of its citizens who need them.

South African Oscar Pistorius will run on artificial legs in the 400-meter Olympic sprint preliminaries in London Saturday. Pistorius is a double amputee who runs world-class times on his carbon-fiber limbs. Some question whether he has an unfair edge — so a lab studied his running motion.

Shut Up and Play the Hits documents the final show by indie dance-rock band LCD Soundsystem, along with the immediate aftermath for frontman James Murphy. Powerful concert footage and an in-depth interview with Murphy make for a classic music documentary.

The 2008 GOP presidential nominee came to the defense of Hilary Clinton's longtime aide on the Senate floor. While Sen. John McCain didn't mention Rep. Michele Bachmann by name, he made clear he wants her to stop suggesting the aide is helping the Muslim Brotherhood.

The Queen of Versailles documents the rise and fall of David and Jackie Siegel, who lost their billions in the recession while building the biggest house in the U.S. Director Lauren Greenfield spoke to NPR about the film — and how the Siegels are an allegory for the overreaching of America.

In a part of America that was once claimed by imperial Russia, a unique combination of Native American and Russian Orthodox influences mingle in a graveyard. There, spirit houses are built to house the dead and ease their passage.

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has shied away from TV interviews. But on Friday, he sat down for five interviews with the nation's top TV news outlets. Romney says he shouldn't be held responsible for what Bain did after 1999 because he had already left the company to run the Salt Lake City Olympics

Just a week after President Obama announced a significant policy shift on immigration, Latino leaders from across the country gathered in Orlando. Both Obama and his GOP rival for the White House, Mitt Romney, addressed the group this week, as NPR's Scott Horlsey reports.

The ongoing European debt crisis is expected to pose major challenges to the next U.S. administration.