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About half of Gaza's population are under 18. NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with the University of Arizona's Maha Nassar, who focuses on Palestinian people and history, about what this means for the war.

Several hundred businessmen and politicians, including the former prime minister, have been detained since the president of Bangladesh declared a state of emergency 14 months ago.

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" shows up on the U.K. charts every year, but never this early in November. And Wham!'s 1984 song "Last Christmas" is sitting at No. 37.

Israeli airstrikes have leveled apartment buildings in a refugee camp near Gaza City, while evacuees from northern Gaza wait for a chance to pass through the Rafah crossing into Egypt.

Bridget Jones hasn't aged well. At 51, she's the "geriatric mum" of two small children, and finds herself yearning to plunge back into dating. Critic Maureen Corrigan says if you're looking for jolly feminist cultural commentary, you'd be better off reading a witty "encyclopedia of lady things" from the creators of the website Jezebel.

Six teens at a summer arts camp dub themselves, only somewhat ironically, "the Interestings" in Meg Wolitzer's novel of the same name. As the book follows the friends into love, marriage and adulthood, some realize their artistic ambitions while others adjust to less interesting lives.

Correspondent Philip Reeves completes his journey along the Indian stretch of the Grand Trunk Road. On the way, he goes to Amritsar and visits the Golden Temple, the holiest shrine of the Sikh religion. And then it's on to Wagah, the border with Pakistan. NPR's series continues on the road in Pakistan.

The Post had been "overly optimistic" about its growth in readership, subscriptions and ads for the past two years, interim CEO Patty Stonesifer wrote in an email to staff.

Rescue efforts continue in earthquake-damaged villages in the Himalayan foothills. Philip Reeves provides an eyewitness account of a helicopter relief-and-rescue mission -- to take food in and bring the injured out.

President Obama's troop increase in Afghanistan is being closely watched by many Americans, though pollsters have detected a strong isolationist sentiment, with nearly half of all Americans saying the United States should "mind its own business."