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On Thursday in Tanzania, the bodies of 14 United Nations peacekeepers killed last week in Democratic Republic of the Congo have been honored in a ceremony.

A delegation from the U.N. has returned from Bangladesh and Myanmar where they were looking into the persecution of the Rohingya people. Steve Inskeep speaks with Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth.

NPR's Ted Clark reports that the US is frantically trying to get both Palestinians and Israelis to stop the violence that has seemingly shattered the peace process. Secretary of State Warren Christopher held a series of non-stop talks with Arab and Israeli Foreign Ministers at the United Nations. Despite that, the US was coming under criticism for allowing the peace process it had brokered drift after the election of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last May.

For the first time, the United Nations has put forward a political declaration pledging to address dementia. Will it make a difference?

This week, the United Nations pleaded for more aid to Sudan, after nearly 10 months of war. U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Linda Thomas-Greenfield is working to draw more attention to the crisis there.

KEN TUCKER reviews ZZ Top''s new record "Antenna" (RCA).

Also: Islamic State militants are surrounded in Raqqa, Syria; the latest on California's wildfires; and the plague outbreak is getting worse in Madagascar.

It's striking how little current pop hits reflect the angst and anger that have dominated this summer's news. But critic Ann Powers finds that one of 2014's biggest songs offers unexpected guidance.

A decades-old British institution is on its way out. The BBC says it will retire the show Top of the Pops. The program lost its allure as THE place for rock bands to be seen.

Bob Clark plays the puzzle with puzzlemaster Will Shortz and NPR's Ayesha Rascoe.