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  • In a world that wants everyone partnered up, this comic by Meghan Keane and LA Johnson offers tips from the experts on how to find peace with singleness and live a full life on your own terms.
  • Before Martin Lawrence's Shanaynay character, or Tyler Perry's Madea, Flip Wilson set the bar high with his portrayal of the sassy Gerladine Jones. She was one of many characters from the late comedian's award-winning series, The Flip Wilson Show.
  • New campaign numbers coming indicate that we might see our first billion-dollar campaign. John Dickerson, chief political correspondent for the online magazine Slate talks about the two top Democrats who currently outpace candidates from both parties.
  • Noah talks to architect Cesar Pelli about the world's tallest buildings. Pelli designed what is currently the world's tallest: the Petronas Towers in Malaysia. Those will soon be dwarfed by a tower in Shanghai, China. And Donald Trump has plans for a still-taller skyscraper in lower Manhattan. Pelli's own design for a 2,000-foot tall building in Chicago has remained un-built since it was unveiled in 1989. Pelli says there are a lot of hurdles for skyscrapers to overcome before completion. He says with extremely tall buildings, the architect must view the process as adding a story at the BOTTOM, not the top -- to account for all the services, wires, elevators, and so forth that go into making a building work.
  • The results are in: teams Ramrod and Trampoleen are the winners of Ball State University's second annual Pumpkin Drop. See photos of the pumpkin-protecting winning designs and hear the sound of winning pumpkins.
  • Had he not been stopped by police, Buffalo Buffalo Police Commissioner Joseph Gramaglia told ABC News on Monday, the alleged perpetrator would have driven away in search of more victims.
  • Pakistani troops are in the fifth day of a fierce battle with al Qaeda fighters near the Afghan border. But doubts arise that Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's top deputy, is the focus of the fighting. Hear NPR's Linda Wertheimer.
  • Benson Kipruto of Kenya was first in the men's division while Ruth Chepngetich, also of Kenya, led the women's division. Sisson finished second.
  • A Youth Radio commentator is appalled by the blinding, Fruity Pebbles-hued, punk-rock fashions taking over Oakland, Calif. — and is determined to wear coordinating clothes, regardless of the mismatching trend.
  • A bear in New Mexico climbed atop a garbage truck and rode at least 5 miles. (Maybe he thought it was an Uber?) Finally the driver took a suggestion to back up to a tree so the bear could climb down.
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