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For every foreign news story in 2011, there were journalists to report it. That put many journalists in dangerous situations. Guest host Jacki Lyden talks to Joel Simon of the Committee to Protect Journalists about the most dangerous places to be a journalist in 2011.

Be it a crown or a baseball cap, the hat has signified a variety of things throughout history. A dazzling traveling exhibition celebrates centuries of hats, but really, its curator says, hats tell us more about mood than time.

Hear the delectably scandalous, dance-floor-ready anthems of the year.

Last May, Michael Brelo was found not guilty of two counts of voluntary manslaughter — in part, because it was too hard to determine which shots had killed the pair.

At a time when there is so much good TV around, NPR TV critic Eric Deggans says, any Top 10 list says as much about the critic as about the shows he is picking.

The deal is comprehensive and technical, but here's a quick write-up that explains sanctions, centrifuges, breakout time and enrichment.

As any visitor who takes an antique streetcar through the mid-market district finds out, there’s much more to San Francisco than just tourist attractions.…

The Bishop of Durham, Justin Welby, has been appointed as the next archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England. The former oil executive has only a year's experience as a bishop. Philip Reeves has the story.

By one measure, China is poised to become the world's largest economy by the end of the year. Why is this shift happening years before most estimates predicted it would?

Also: Partner of reporter at center of NSA leaks stories is detained by British authorities; speeding train kills 35 in India; U.N. investigators arrive in Syria to probe chemical weapons reports; effort begins to recall San Diego Mayor Bob Filner.

The prisoners — four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian — are the first Guantanamo detainees released in South America. Uruguay's president first signaled willingness to take the men in May.

As the not-guilty verdict set in, protesters took to the streets and thinkers asked the big questions.