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Hou Hsiao-Hsien has built worldwide fame, but he's done so with realistic films about normal people. In The Assassin, he upends expectations (and genre conventions) with a medieval action tale.

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with reporter Michael Schmidt about accountability — a word that's likely to come up often next week, as Hillary Clinton faces the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

Should artificial intelligence mimic human behavior? The executive in charge of developing future generations of IBM's Watson tackles that and other questions about the limits and powers of AI.

Finding a good financial adviser can be tricky. Their investing strategy, fees and how they charge them come into play. Wharton economics professor Kent Smetters offers tips on selecting an adviser.

The TV show, set in a New York City hospital in the early 1900s, depicts turn-of-the-century medicine in grisly detail. Stars Clive Owen and Andre Holland say there's no nostalgia involved.

Canadians cast votes for parliament Monday, after an 11-week campaign. It's the longest in Canada's modern history — and one of the most contentious. CBC's John Northcott explains what's at play.

The pet kangaroo — spotted bouncing around near an auto repair shop — escaped though an unlocked gate at a nearby home. Pet kangaroos are illegal in New York City, but Buster may have been a guest.

Bush is defending his brother's decisions, as Trump blames former President George W. Bush for failing to prevent the attacks.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks to Larry Yungk, who coordinates refugee resettlement programs with the U.S., and Allentown, Penn., Mayor Ed Pawlowski about his appeal for more refugees in his city.

A yellow-bellied sea snake washed ashore in Ventura County, Calif., Friday. It's the first reported sighting of the species in Southern California since 1983. Now it's joining the collection at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.

Beasts of No Nation is Netflix's first original film, and the company has chosen to distribute it in theaters and on its streaming service simultaneously. The strategy is one generally frowned upon by theater owners because it's a direct competition. Why go out when you can stay home? Is this Netflix's play for an Oscar?

The church, built in 1564, was flooded after the construction of a dam in 1966. Severe drought has allowed the church to be visible again.

South Africa's paralympian sprinter has been released from prison following his "culpable homicide" conviction in the 2013 shooting death of his girlfriend. He is under house arrest.

Who's going to be more empathetic to a problem you're confronting — someone who has never been through it, or someone who has been through it themselves? Our intuitive answer to this question is often wrong.

Oprah Winfrey acquired a stake in Weight Watchers and the company's stock soared. She hopes to do the same for her cable TV network with a new seven-part series on faith and religion around the world.

In the classic movie Back to the Future Part II, Michael J. Fox's Marty McFly travels forward 30 years to Oct. 21, 2015. Is life like the movie predicted? Maybe. But was it ever supposed to be?

An online essay has many agreeing that abuse and incivility undermine the social Web. But as with many cases of online speech, one man's bickering and snark are another man's freedom and dialogue.

The New York Times announced a new virtual reality initiative saying they will distribute more than a million "Google Cardboard" viewers, and start releasing 360-degree documentary virtual reality films. NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jake Silverstein, editor in chief of The New York Times Magazine, who is working on the effort, about what it means to do journalism in this new space.

They're part-puzzle, part-team building exercise, part-fantasy — and they have friends paying to get trapped in a room together. They have been popping up in cities around the country.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks to New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick about his investigation into some of the 71 migrants who suffocated in the back of a truck earlier this year in Austria.