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Australians Robin Warren and Barry Marshall receive the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Their research bucked conventional wisdom, showing that a bacterium, not simply excess stomach acid, causes peptic ulcers. Also, it suggested that bacterium may be a major cause of stomach cancer.

Israeli troops seek to evacuate two isolated settlements in the northern West Bank. Police stormed a citadel and synagogues in the Sanur and Homesh enclaves that had been fortified by protesters. Most of the settlers left days earlier, and the protesters are primarily from other West Bank settlements.

Saddam Hussein's trial resumes in dramatic fashion after an 11-day break. Saddam and his co-defendants boycotted the past two days of the trial and intended to boycott Monday's proceedings. But they arrived disheveled and combative after the court forced them to attend.

In a remote province in the southeast tip of Poland, surrounded by snow and bare trees, 11 burly men in orange suits are hard at work rebuilding rail tracks first put down in the 19th century.

There's no fowl play here — just blame the supply chain, our comfort food habits and a simple fact of nature. Wings might be pricier, but there's no shortage of them, experts say.

Single and tired of being asked if you're dating? A new service offers the appearance of having a significant other who texts you and even leaves voice mails. NPR's Jasmine Garsd gave it a try.

Stock markets rallied on Friday, but it was not enough to erase the losses from earlier in the week. Investors are fretting that the recent market turmoil could mean another recession.

One of the last of the trials of Nazi guards has begun in Germany. NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks to Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center about their future after these prosecutions end.

There's a revolution underway in Venezuela — not on the streets, where uprisings have failed, but in the halls of Congress. For the first time in nearly two decades, the opposition is in charge.

Around the world, many of us start our day with a drug derived from a natural insecticide: caffeine. Murray Carpenter tells the tale in Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us.