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Critic Bob Mondello picks the best movies of the year, and surprise! "Twister" isn't one of them. He says that the most interesting films of the year actually were about disasters...just not the natural kind.

Commentator Fawn Fitzgibbon has been a home hospice nurse for 7 years. In that time she has learned that death comes relentlessly. Cutting a life short by suicide is to surrender, she says. To live each moment, despite the limits that an illness brings, is more than to shake a fist at death; it gives meaning to the life itself, she says.

The Mendi Bible was stolen this week from the library of former President John Quincy Adams. It was an important piece of history in the anti-slavery movement. Scott speaks with historian Paul Nagle.

The city of Hong Kong will cease being a British colony exactly six months from today, and local opinions about the changeover are running high. NPR's Mary Kay Magistad talks with four Hong Kong residents about their apprehensions and expectations as the handover date nears.

of the delay in signing the Hebron accord and the shooting.

to examine the significance of North Korea's apology to South Korea this week.

Writer Alice Van Buren takes us to a cafe in Paris. There we meet Bruno, the bald accordionist and discover how the ambience of this bohemian restaurant helps articulate her affection for the City of Lights.

NPR's Claudio Sanchez looks at the controversy surrounding "Ebonics," black English, which has been recognized by the Oakland school board.

NPR's Mary Kay Magistad reports on "Comrades, Almost A Love Story," a film by Hong Kong director Peter Chan. As Hong Kong makes the transition to Chinese control, Chan and other filmmakers are coming to terms with new rules regarding artistic freedom. His film follows a young man and a young woman who have recently moved from China to Hong Kong and the social dislocation they face.

ever to be charged with espionage is in jail after being caught trying to sell secrets to the Russians.