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Residents who were in an Ebola quarantine area complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials, in West Point, Monrovia, on August 23, 2014.
Health
It’s not just the US — Liberian officials are rethinking Ebola quarantines
Supporters of the Dorje Shugden tradition in Tibetan Buddhism are behind a concerted protest campaign against the Dalai Lama, who spoke in downtown Boston on Thursday.
Belief
Breakaway Buddhists take aim at the Dalai Lama
Smoke rises over Syrian town of Kobani after an airstrike, as seen from the Mursitpinar border crossing on the Turkish-Syrian border in the southeastern town of Suruc in Sanliurfa province, October 18, 2014.
Conflict
Foreign fighters are joining jihadi groups in ‘unprecedented’ numbers
Reporter Laura Kasinof covering the inauguration of Yemeni President Abdurabbu Mansour Hadi, February 2012.
Conflict
How one woman stumbled into a violent uprising in Yemen
Reuben Koroma, a founding member of the band Sierra Leone’s Refugee All-Stars, at his temporary home in Providence, Rhode Island.
Music
A band of Sierra Leonean war refugees is trapped outside their country — again
Exterior view of the "White Palace" in Ankara, Turkey.
Global Politics
Ankara’s huge new palace is fit for a sultan
This is Sahu Cinema Hall, in the center of my hometown, Lucknow, India. I watched hundreds of movies there when I was kid, and it brings back lots of memories for me.
Culture
When I try to belong in America, I long for India — and vice versa
The former president of Burkina Faso, Thomas Sankara
Global Politics
Burkina Faso’s protests broke 27 years of fear and silence
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 31, 2014
Budapest protest against Internet tax proposal
Global Politics
Hungarians take to the streets to force their government to dump plans for an Internet tax
New York sommelier and chef Paul Lang
Food
This New York sommelier makes Italian wines personal with their stories
Nurse Deborah Wilson has recently returned from Liberia, where she worked with Doctors Without Borders to treat Ebola patients.
Medicine
An Ebola nurse faces widespread stigma after returning from Liberia
Col. Todd Wood, then commander of 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, talks with soldiers at FOB Masum Ghar in Kandahar province, Afghanistan in 2011.
Culture
Seven words and phrases used by soldiers that we could all learn from
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 30, 2014
A vegetarian kebab is seen at OUR restaurant near the Saint-Lazare train station in Paris October 27, 2014.
Food
The French far right is fighting what it calls ‘the kebabization’ of France
From left, BBC reporter Shaimaa Khalil, salon owner Murtasa Misbah and acid attack victim Bushra Shafi, who got medical attention for her burns thanks to Misbah and now works at her salon.
Justice
‘For less than a dollar, you can [buy] a liter of acid and basically destroy someone’s life’
The font, Sweden Sans, was designed by Swedish agency Soderhavet in collaboration with Swedish font artist Stefan Hattenbach as part of a new national branding effort.
Culture
Sweden hopes to project a new image with its official font
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 29, 2014
An unmanned Antares rocket is seen exploding seconds after liftoff from a commercial launch pad in this still image from NASA video at Wallops Island, Virginia, on October 28, 2014.
Science
These kids watched their science project disappear in the Antares rocket explosion
Fatty Arbuckle (center) riding in The Whip, one of William F. Mangels' classic rides. At one time, Mangels had 500 of them in operation.
Culture
It took a ‘cranky,’ dour immigrant to make Coney Island the capital of fun
A tweet from Iyad el-Baghdadi, a prominent online activist who's now seeking asylum in Norway.
Conflict
The Arab Spring was no failure, says one activist who refuses to give up
Migrants in a boat during a rescue operation by Italian navy ship San Marco off the coast to the south of the Italian island of Sicily.
Development
Italy has been rescuing migrants stranded at sea — but they don’t want to pay for it
David Rowe, Australia, January 8, 2015
Global Politics
This cartoonist packs a punch, with worldwide targets
The famous "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas Nevada" sign on the south end of the Strip lit up on June 15, 2014. Casinos in Sin City are using big data to track customers with the goal they will keep coming back.
Books
What happens in Vegas, stays in a Vegas casino’s database
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Development
Meet the undocumented workers who rebuilt New York and New Jersey after Sandy
A wind farm with 43 wind turbines generates electricity for the village of Feldheim, Germany.
Environment
A German village keeps the lights on with windmills and pig manure
British troops lower the Union Flag during a ceremony marking the end of operations for US Marines and British combat troops in Helmand on October 26, 2014.
Conflict
Afghan success stories aren’t quite what they seem
Supporters of the secular Nida Tounes (Call of Tunisia) party movement wave flags and shout slogans during parliamentary elections.
Global Politics
Secular parties won Tunisia’s election, but they may have to govern with Islamists
Lucy Oliveira of the New Bedford Immigrants' Assistance Center sits with 86-year-old Margarida Xavier, who moved to the US from Portugal in the 1960s. Oliveira visits Xavier's home every month and often helps Xavier read her mail.
Lifestyle
Some Portuguese immigrants feel isolated as they grow old in their adopted home
Mayor Rob Ford (R) is congratulated by his brother Doug after it was announced that Rob was elected as a city councillor and that Doug was stopped in his bid to become mayor in the municipal election in Toronto, October 27, 2014.
Global Politics
The Ford era ends in Toronto as the city elects a new mayor
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 28, 2014
Conflict
Film traces how Nouri al-Maliki’s treatment of Iraqi Sunnis helped ISIS get stronger
The main atrium of this would-be mall is now home to hundreds of Iraqis from villages outside Mosul. Here the concrete floors and walls give families more protection than the displaced families living in tents in a public park just across the street.
Conflict
Erbil’s abandoned construction sites are a ‘saving grace’ for refugees
Volunteers put on protective suits during an Ebola training session held by Germany's Red Cross in Würzburg, on October 21, 2014
Health
How a wedding gown designer is taking on hazmat suits
Yellow ribbons adorn portraits of South Korean students who died in the mid-April ferry disaster. South Korean prosecutors on Monday sought the death penalty for Lee Joon-seok, 68, the captain of the ferry that capsized in April, leaving 304 people dead o
Justice
South Korea considers the death penalty for the man who shipwrecked a ferry
Women react during a protest demanding that Nigerian security forces search harder for 200 schoolgirls abducted by Islamist militants.
Conflict
Nigerian girls who escaped from Boko Haram describe their ordeal
In the desert community of Bnei Netzarim near the Egyptian border, organic farmer Gilad Fine shows off his greenhouse featuring lettuce grown hydroponically on raised platforms.
Belief
How to keep farming when God says to stop
Protesters hold masks depicting former US National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden during a demonstration in Berlin on May 22, 2014. The sentence on the shirt reads, "What has happened to revolution?"
Arts
Laura Poitras’ new documentary tells the Edward Snowden story — with some free computer lessons thrown in
Goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa of South Africa's Orlando Pirates is beaten by a shot from Mohamed Aboutrika of Egypt's Al Ahli at Orlando Stadium in Soweto on November 2, 2013.
Sports
The killing of a South African soccer star highlights the nation’s rising murder rate
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Music
Liberian immigrants hope their song will offer support to those dealing with Ebola back home
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 27, 2014
Zahit Salazar used to earn a little money selling clothes she bought near the southern border with Mexico. But Mexico's new checkpoints have made that too difficult. She's had to fall back on grinding corn to make tamales.
Global Politics
Locals say checkpoints along Mexico’s southern border mean endless commutes and shake-downs
Zambian women sing at Lusaka's international airport in 2008.
Development
Happy 50th birthday, Zambia!
Filipino Muslims hold a banner during a rally outside the Danish embassy in Manila's Makati financial district February 15, 2006. The protesters were demonstrating against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad that were published by a Danish newspaper.
Media
Cartoons of Muhammad sparked global outrage, but the man who approved them has no regrets
People ride bicycles across the Canal Saint-Martin in Paris, the city’s main canal.
Geo Quiz
Which American city could potentially adopt a canal system to combat rising tides?
Reconstruction in Gaza is only just beginning
Conflict
How radio became a ‘lifeline’ in Gaza
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 24, 2014
The crew and back-up team for Ahad Momand's mission. Momand is third from the left.
Science
The only Afghan to ever fly in space almost didn’t make it back to Earth
Nik Rabinowitz is a South African comedian and author.
Culture
Meet South Africa’s funniest, Xhosa-speaking, Jewish comedian
A view of the oil refinery in Baiji, Iraq, taken in 2007, when it was operational. The refinery has been shut down since June 2014.
Conflict
The US has intervened to help Iraq hold its most important oil facility
Shukri Alassouli's wife and two children were among some 450 people who drowned in a fishing boat rammed by people smugglers last month in the Mediterranean Ocean.
Conflict
A ‘mass murder in the Mediterranean’ leaves nearly 450 lost at sea, including this man’s family
Cyanobacteria, or "green slime," is wreaking havoc with Lake Erie's water supplies and fishing industries. The outbreaks are caused largely by runoff of fertilizers and other nutrients from farms, and they're a growing problem in the Great Lakes and aroun
Environment
In the fight against green slime on Lake Erie, farmers try to clean up their act
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Music
The love affair between Mexican Americans and Morrissey isn’t that surprising
Soldiers from the U.S. Army put on one of three pairs of protective gloves during their final session of personal protective equipment training.
Health
How ‘big data’ could help stop the spread of Ebola
Justice
Iranians want answers and action after a spate of acid attacks on women
Liberian American Shoana Solomon started a campaign called "I am a Liberian, not a virus," to combat the stigma of Ebola.
Health
The ‘I am Liberian, not a virus’ campaign confronts the stigma of Ebola
A Christie's moderator facilitates the sale of a piece of artwork titled "Homme Assis" by Pablo Picasso during a Christie's auction in Shanghai on September 26, 2013.
Arts
A master forger’s works go to auction — under his own name for once
Music Heard on Air
Music heard on the air for October 23, 2014
Police officers inspect the area around the National War Memorial in downtown Ottawa, where a Canadian soldier was shot and killed, on October 23, 2014.
Conflict
Details emerge about the suspect in the Ottawa shooting, but not about potential terrorist ties