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Scientists setting up GPS sensors to measure "accelerated uplift" in Iceland.
Environment
Melting glaciers lift Iceland — literally
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Culture
Forget men’s and women’s clothing, one department store is going unisex
A church made entirely from ice is seen during the night at Balea Lac resort in the Fagaras mountains.
Belief
Here’s a church where soul searching can be a chilly affair
People walk through the streets of a shopping area in Addis Ababa.
Belief
If you have a meeting in Ethiopia, you’d better double check the time
A girl and her brother shelter in a cave during an air raid in the Nuba mountains of Sudan in 2012.
Conflict
Doctors become targets in Sudan’s forgotten wars
The new, young, leftist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras wants debt forgiveness and an end to European austerity measures but as you can see, if he exits through the window it's a long way down.
Global Politics
A Greek tragedy or comedy: Cartoonists aren’t yet sure when it comes to Alexis Tsipras
Riot police walk along Mohamed Mahmoud Street, near Cairo's Tahrir Square, in front of murals representing people killed during Egypt's uprising.
Conflict
Four years after a ‘revolution,’ Egypt is back to square one
Don Johnson, a former park ranger, on a fossil walk near his home on the Bonavista Peninsula in Newfoundland. As a kid, he used to climb on these rocks, but he says people here never know the fossils in these rocks were so significant.
Science
A fossil flexes its muscle in Newfoundland, but it can’t keep thieves away
A Taoist priest stands in sunlight to keep warm in the courtyard of the 700-year-old Dongyue Temple in central Beijing.
Belief
Daoism gains a foothold, again, in China
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Music
Presenting the new sound of PRI’s The World
Kenyan marathon runner Rita Jeptoo arrives at the Athletics Kenya headquarters after failing a doping test, in Kenya's capital Nairobi, January 15, 2015.
Sports
The ‘Queen of the Marathon’ doped her way to victory
The walls of Zakharov Auto Parts in Hialeah, just outside Miami, are filled with photos of vintage Russian cars in Cuba fixed with parts bought at the store.
Economics
How to fix an old Russian car in Cuba? There’s this mechanic in Miami
Matthew Barzun, America's ambassador to London, is also an ambassador of rock.
Culture
This US ambassador to Britain practices ‘vinyl diplomacy’
The view from 15,000 feet over the Pacific Ocean as seen from the Two Eagles Balloon flight deck.
Technology
A US-Russian pair is trying to smash the ‘holy grail’ of ballooning records
Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei, at left, poses outside his studio for a photograph with his lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, in July 2012.
Justice
Why the world’s elite are afraid to call out China on its human rights record
Golshid Mola wants to introduce the works of underground Iranian designers to the world.
Arts
An Iranian American entrepreneur is keeping a close eye on nuclear talks
Ten-month old Lauren Durbin receives an injection for measles, mumps and rubella. Typically children do not receive the MMR vaccine until they are 12 months old.
Health
What Sweden can teach America about measles vaccinations
The BBC's Jonathan L'Anson plays a recording for Stan Beaton.
Media
Tears of joy as a husband hears ‘lost’ recording of his late wife’s voice
The NBA will celebrate the Chinese New Year with special Chinese-themed uniforms for the Golden State Warriors and the Houston Rockets, whose shirt is pictured here.
Sports
Why the NBA is breaking out special uniforms for Chinese New Year
A common loon swimming on Gull Lake in Ontario, Canada. The loon already appears on Canadian currency, and it may soon be the country's national bird.
Environment
Canadians vote for a national bird, and the loon is in the lead
Khabarovsk's reported new airport logo.
Culture
Hello, Putin! A flying bear that swept the Internet
Screenshot of the video message from the Islamic State, in which a man believed to be Kenji Goto warns that there are only 24 hours left to save his life and even less time for a Jordanian air force pilot Muath al-Kasasbeh, who is also being held hostage
Conflict
Under pressure, Jordan proposes prisoner swap with ISIS
At Redemption Hospital in Liberia, health workers screen patients for Ebola at the entrance to the facility, cleaning them off with a chlorine solution, taking their temperature and asking a series of questions. "At our hospital we have tried to create a
Health
Ebola is creating a new epidemic of untreated illness and injury
Veiled women walk past a billboard that carries a verse from the Koran urging women to wear a hijab in the northern Syrian province of Raqqa.
Conflict
Western young women who join ISIS can’t fight, but they sure can tweet
A fighter from the Kurdish People's Protection Units, or YPG, flashes a victory sign as he patrols the streets in the northern Syrian town of Kobane on January 28, 2015.
Conflict
Antique weapons combined with high-tech airpower pushed ISIS out of Kobane
This new ceiling lamp from Stack Lighting is on a growing list of household products that are "smart," but also green. It uses sensors to adjust itself based on ambient lighting in a room, and switch itself off if there's no one there. The company says th
Technology
Here comes an energy efficiency revolution
Tania Bruguera
Arts
Cuban artist describes regime’s still-watchful eye
An archival photo of matzo-making at Streit's on the Lower East Side; things haven't changed all that much at the factory over the decades.
Food
A family that’s made matzo on the Lower East Side for nearly a century prepares to leave the neighborhood
A Kurdish boy with "Kobane" written on his forehead takes part in a celebration in the Syrian Kurdish city of Qamishli, after it was reported that Kurdish forces took control of the Syrian town of Kobani, January 27, 2015.
Culture
In the image war, ISIS takes a hit following Kobane setback
Argentina's President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sitting in a wheelchair, addresses the nation during a televised speech in Buenos Aires announcing an attempt to disband SIDE, the country's intelligence agency.
Global Politics
Argentina’s president declares war on ‘the power behind the power’ — her country’s spies
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Saudi Arabia's King Salman at the start of a meeting at Erga Palace in Riyadh.
Justice
Would you take 100 lashes to spare a Saudi blogger? They say they will
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Culture
Miami’s Soviet time machine gives Cuban expats a nostalgia fix
Andrea's snow selfie
Environment
It’s a day of wild winter weather for PRI’s The World
Alexander Litvinenko in the hospital shortly before his death in 2006.
Justice
Moscow gets formal blame for the 2006 killing of a dissident in London
Survivors attend a ceremony on the site of the former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland. Tuesday marked the 70th anniversary of the Nazi camp's liberation by Allied soldiers.
Justice
Why I want to remind you of the Holocaust
Lemurs eat at Qingdao Forest Wildlife World in Qingdao, Shandong province, January 27, 2015.
Culture
Lunchtime for these … um, lemurs
Music
‘I Have No Everything Here.’ From an overcrowded prison in Malawi, moving music
Khaloob Mushref, at lef, is a biology major, and Hassan Zakari, right, is a psychology major at Marymount University
Culture
Saudi students in the US have confidence in their new king
Mike Caprio sampling a spicy chocolate cookie dubbed The Best Cookie in the World.
Food
How I fell in love with the world’s greatest cookie
Conflict
A Yemeni watches from afar — again — as his country erupts in chaos
President Barack Obama and India's prime minister, Narendra Modi, talk as they have coffee and tea together in the gardens of Hyderabad House in New Delhi on January 25, 2015. Obama is visiting India for three days to attend Republic Day celebrations and
Global Politics
Obama enjoys a Modi bromance during his India trip
The head of radical leftist Syriza party Alexis Tsipras speaks to supporters after winning the elections in Athens January 25, 2015
Economics
Why Greek voters bucked Europe, backed an anti-austerity party
Dean Parker, a commercial housepainter and avid surfer from Florida, traveled to northern Iraq to fight with the Kurdish Peshmerga against ISIS.
Conflict
Meet the surfing grandfather from Florida who helped the Kurds fight ISIS
Relatives, friends and residents of Alexandria mourn during the funeral of Shaimaa al-Sabbagh, an activist at the Socialist Popular Alliance Party (SPAP), in Alexandria January 25, 2015.
Conflict
Death of young woman in Egypt sparks anger
Sperm whale defecating near photographer Keri Wilk
Science
A Canadian photographer captures images of a whale ‘poopnado’
India's Border Security Force "Daredevils" motorcycle riders perform stunts as they take part during the Republic Day parade in New Delhi January 26, 2015.
Culture
Obama heads to India and was treated to these amazing parade acrobats
Mohammed Jamil lived across the street from Iman Shawan, who left the Kurdish community to join ISIS.
Conflict
Kurdish men are joining ISIS to kill their own people
The Flavor Essence dance team moves through its choreography in unison as smoke clouds the air in a nightclub around 3am on a Thursday night. Videographers often attend the parties to make video of the dancers, which will be published on the internet on v
Arts
Meet the Dancehall Queens of Brooklyn
Students talk and catch up at Matilda Newport Junior High School, a public school, on the first day of registration for classes in Monrovia.
Culture
It’s back to school for these Liberia kids
Mourners gather around the grave of Saudi King Abdullah following his burial in Riyadh on Friday.
Global Politics
In a region of turmoil, the new Saudi king promises continuity
Princess Ameerah al-Taweel (R), chief executive of Saudi-based Time Entertainment Holding, speaks with women at Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai March 9, 2014. While female company directors are still a rarity in the Middle East, the region's growing wealth, r
Culture
What it’s like to drive Saudi Arabian princesses around
Followers of the Houthi movement march as they demonstrate to show support for the Shiite rebel group in Sana'a on January 23, 2015.
Global Politics
The Houthi takeover in Yemen will reverberate in Saudi Arabia
Scoping out the latest products from SkyMall magazine.
Business
With SkyMall shutting down, hurry up and buy these items before they’re gone
A Houthi fighter holds a rifle with a sticker portraying Ahmed Ali Abdulah Saleh, the eldest son of Yemen's former president Ali Abdullah Saleh, as he rides a truck near the presidential palace in Sanaa. On Thursday, Houthi rebels welcomed proposed conce
Global Politics
3 ways to sound smart about Yemen
Kolkata by VII photographer Ed Kashi
Arts
Walk the streets of Kolkata and ask yourself, can I take a bad picture?
Yillian David is a Garifuna living in Honduras. She's thought of leaving to go to the US, but she's decided to stay to help preserve her culture.
Culture
One Honduran woman decided not to leave for the US thanks to her Garifuna culture
Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at Guantánamo since 2002 without charges.
Books
US censors make 2,500 cuts to first-ever published diary by Guantanamo detainee
President Barack Obama and Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, are seen in this combination photo as they attend the opening ceremony of the Nuclear Security Summit in The Hague on March 24, 2014.
Science
Relations with Russia chill, and nuclear security cooperation gets put on ice
Outside Paris' Le Comedy Club before the performace of comedians Younes and Bambi, aka Younes Depardieuis and Samuel Djian. Younes is Muslim. Samuel is Jewish.
Culture
A Muslim and a Jew walk into a comedy club in Paris — and hilarity ensues
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Global Politics
You’re Cuban. You’ve reached the US by boat. Now what?