Gaia’s on a mission to create a 3-D map of the Milky Way’s stars

This is why South African schoolgirls say ‘yes’ to sex with sugar daddies

The US has long worked to prevent diplomats from mistreating household workers

Can independent radio journalism broadcast in Syria today?

Music heard on air December 19, 2013

Here are the books that we loved reading this year, and you might too

‘Tis the season for giving plastic

A photographer captures the violence in the streets of the Central African Republic

A White House advisory panel suggests 46 ways to rein in the NSA

For Vladimir Putin, it’s been a very good year