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Five wildly different acts debut in the top 10 of the Billboard albums chart this week, including Mariah Carey, Olivia Dean, Doja Cat and more.

President Bush meets with Brazil's leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva at the White House. Market reform talks are on the table with the key South American trading partner. NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.

Recent polls show that health care concerns and associated economic anxiety are approaching the war in terms of importance as a campaign issue. What positions are the presidential candidates staking out?

Also: Further review is called for the Dakota Access pipeline route through tribal lands; New Zealand reviews earthquake damage; and China says its air pollution worsened last month.

Also: More flooding wrecks South Carolina; a European Union court rules the E.U. wrongly shares data with the U.S.; and 1.8 million boxes of Cheerios are recalled over possible wheat contamination.

Michael Horn's departure, effective immediately, was by "mutual agreement," a statement from the company says.

NPR's Melissa Block reflects on the results of an annual survey about what most scares Americans. The nation's health care system, pollution and another world war rank in the top 10.

The NCAA basketball tournaments can be onslaught of unfamiliar names and terms enough to make any casual viewer nervous. We're here to help. (Except for NET. We can't explain NET.)

Anxiety and panic attacks crippled Simone Dinnerstein {sih-MOAN-uh DIN-er-steen} for years, despite her stellar career as a concert pianist. She tells NPR's Leila Fadel how she overcame her stage fright.

Also: President Trump will visit Asia in November; an astronaut and a cosmonaut blast off toward the International Space Station; and a drive-through marijuana shop opens in Colorado.

Also: Syrian president Assad warns of repercussions should the U.S. strike his country; new Snowden disclosures suggest the NSA spied on Google and Brazil's state-owned oil company; NAACP president Benjamin Jealous is stepping down; and a new Van Gogh painting is discovered.

Also: Veterans Day events; a senior Taliban leader is assassinated; a European satellite burns up as it falls back to Earth; Miss Universe 2013 is crowned; and there's a shortage of knishes.

Also: The sign language interpreter at the Mandela memorial ceremony says he has schizophrenia; Kerry returns to Israel for more shuttle diplomacy; Yahoo email slowly returns to normal; and the smog is getting so bad in China pilots are ordered to learn how to land blind.

Also: Target's CEO resigns after last year's huge data breach; an Oklahoma wildfire turns deadly; and officials find several rare monkeys stolen from a British zoo.

Also: New sounds heard in ocean search for missing jet; child killed when car crashes into Florida daycare; and the last Corvette is pulled from a sinkhole in the Corvette Museum in Kentucky.

Also: Kenya's deputy prime minister goes to The Hague to faces crimes against humanity charges; a new wildfire near San Francisco grows rapidly; a Kentucky college loses a $250 million gift; and NASCAR issues heavy penalties after discovering cheating in a race.

Also: Former Israel prime minister Ariel Sharon is said to be deterorating; hackers strike Skype and Snapchat; people are still missing from yesterday's big apartment fire in Minneapolis; and recreational marijuana is now legal to sell in Colorado.

Also: U.N. envoy calls for transitional government in Syria; former President George H.W. Bush remains hospitalized; and talks to avoid an East Coast port strike resume.

Also: French magazine ordered not to republish or distribute topless photos of Kate Middleton; Chicago teachers' union to vote on contract; 132 inmates escape Mexican prison near border with Texas.

Also: The death toll from the Bangladesh building collapse rises while a new factory fire kills more people; fewer U.S. homes enter the foreclosure process; Wrigley stops selling caffeinated gum; and a Young and the Restless soap star dies.