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Three Chinese astronauts are back on earth after they had to prolong their stay in outer space due to space debris hitting their spacecraft.

As the senior population in the U.S. grows, so do efforts to help older Americans stay at home — and out of hospitals and nursing homes.

With dense forests and rugged beauty, Grindstone Island is a favorite summer getaway for visitors — and some of them never want to leave. The island near the Canadian border has one official cemetery, but locals say that hundreds of people are buried there, in unofficial gravesites.

In Syria, the port city of Tartous is fiercely loyal to President Bashar Assad. It's where many of his supporters, as well as Syrian soldiers, go for vacation. So far about 300,000 Syrians have also fled to the city looking for work and refuge from fighting in cities like Damascus and Qusair.

Margaret Renkl's vivid and original essays capture the cycle of life in a new book that will make you want to stay put, reread and savor everything about the moment.

The interest rate on the 10-year Treasury bond issued last week fell to 1.5 percent. That means, if you bought such a bond and inflation stayed about where it is now, you wouldn't make any money. The rates on Japanese and German debt are even lower.

With just two days left before Senegal's presidential election, mediation efforts are underway to try to calm a political standoff in the West African nation that has led to violent protests. There is resistance the the 85-year-old incumbent seeking a third term.

"These people are not under federal quarantine orders," Dr. Chris Braden of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says.

Denis Antoine spent more than a decade as Grenada's ambassador to the United States, and he's written a self-help book for disoriented diplomats from small nations. It's called Effective Diplomacy, and Antoine shares some of his advice with Guy Raz, including this key lesson: "Get a good driver ... or at least a good GPS unit."

A cultural center in Senegal is creating a safe space where artists can use their platform to speak about climate change while also finding opportunities in the art and music scene.