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To get to the top, it took a mix of obsessive attention to detail, scale, government support and guitar-string-related quirks. Can BYD can crack the U.S. market?

What do UFOs, Fireball Cinnamon and a dead snowshoe hare have in common? They all made the list of NPR.org's top stories of the year.

Students at London's Kingston University this week unveiled luxury designs made of bio-degradable materials. There are stilettos made from pistachio shells and coffee beans, a wood-chip corset and a top made from orange peel.

The professional gamer just got a visa normally reserved for baseball players and other athletes to compete in the U.S., and more international players could follow. "Gaming is their full-time job," says Marcus Graham, a senior manager at the gaming site Twitch.

China has been a big and growing market for U.S. corn. But then farmers started planting a kind of genetically engineered corn that's not yet approved in China, and the Chinese government struck back.

Ukrainian tanks arrived in the city of Kramatorsk Wednesday morning. By the time they rolled out of the city, they were flying Russian flags. People in Kramatorsk tell the story of what happened.

The pre-Super Bowl week of hype — which ran the gamut from frivolous to ominous — finally ends and we can turn to what could be one of the closest, most exciting championship games ever.

NPR's Melissa Block speaks with Kiryn Lanning of the International Rescue Committee about the hundreds recently rescued in Nigeria from Boko Haram captivity.

The credit reporting agency said Chairman and CEO Richard Smith is retiring — just weeks after Equifax acknowledged that hackers had accessed the personal information of up to 143 million consumers.

N.E.R.D. premiered the new album — featuring Andre 3000, Kendrick Lamar, Ed Sheeran and more — Saturday in Long Beach, California.