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North Korea continues to defy a U.N. Security Council ban on missile launches with its second test in four days. Japanese officials say a missile soared over their territory before hitting the ocean.

The warring parties — including the current government, the Houthis and supporters of the former president — are in Biel for U.N.-backed talks.

The officers were on duty when they killed James Boyd near Albuquerque, N.M. The killing was one of several incidents that drew a rebuke from the Department of Justice.

The UN secretary general has describing the use of starvation by the warring sides in Syria as a "war crime." The UN met on the matter today.

A car bomb and two suicide bombs struck near a shrine revered by Shiite Muslims on Sunday. Groups aligned with Bashar al-Assad often use the defense of the shrine as a rallying cry for recruits.

The ACLU's class-action lawsuit alleges that the government is illegally detaining teens from Suffolk County, N.Y., based on unsubstantiated claims that they are members of transnational street gangs.

In New York this week, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad continues a long tradition of world leaders who have used a United Nations visit to take pot shots at their host.

Vincent Simonetti started playing tuba in high school in the 1950s. It was love at first puff. Now he and his wife, Ethel, have filled a house in Durham, N.C., with tubas for the public to tour.

He took the electronics chain from one store in Brooklyn, N.Y., to — at its height — 43 stores in four states. Antar went to prison for racketeering and stock fraud, but his conviction was overturned.

Ahmed plays a drummer who loses his hearing in Sound of Metal.Maureen Corrigan shares her book picks for the year.Gruen has photographed countless rock stars, including John Lennon and Tina Turner.