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Development
Indian dudes to Indian dudes: Respect women
Fingerprints of a migrant are taken during registration at the Patrick-Henry Village refugee center, a former U.S. military facility in Heidelberg, Germany September 29, 2015.
Conflict
Germany is saying no to economic migrants in order to take in more refugees
US Secretary of State, John Kerry looks on during the U.N. Security Council meeting on counter-terrorism at the United Nations General Assembly at the United Nations in New York on September 30, 2015.
Conflict
The Russians want to save Assad in Syria
A woman on a bicycle speeds toward a man.
Media
Napoleon wasn’t so short after all: a cartoonist’s take on history
Haitian youth
Development
A ‘home’ away from home is helping young Haitians in the US cope with trauma of 2010 earthquake
chembur girls soccer
Development
What a generation can bring
Hajia Bilkisu Yusuf sits with former first lady, Laura Bush, at the National Center for Women's Development in Abuja, Nigeria, January 2006.
Belief
Lost in the Hajj stampede was a pioneering journalist who united Christians and Muslims
Syrian family embrace after making journey to Greece
Conflict
This will challenge your misconceptions about the refugee crisis
Afghan local police sit at the back of a truck near a frontline during a battle with the Taliban at Qalay- i-zal district, in Kunduz province, Afghanistan August 1, 2015.
Conflict
The Taliban are back on the radar in Afghanistan again — this time in Kunduz
Elise Park, a North Korean living in Los Angeles, dreams of one day returning home. For now she's studying hard at a local community college.
Global Politics
This North Korean defector dreams of being a real estate developer
A graveyard on the Greek island of Lesbos, where refugees are buried. Many are buried in unmarked graves in a different section.
Global Politics
Greeks on Lesbos tend to a graveyard for refugees and migrants
Microbeads are found in this foaming scrub from Neutrogena.
Environment
Update: Why Canada (and now the US) is banning microbeads
24-year old North Korean refugee Danbi was a smuggler in North Korea's black markets. Here she gives us a tour of a market in South Korea, which reminds her of the markets in the North.
Culture
Why young North Koreans are daring to wear skinny jeans
Zainab
Arts
The Pakistani film Dukhtar shows what a mother will sacrifice for her child
Sonita Alizadeh sings inside of the recording studio at her high school in Utah.
Culture
Once a child laborer in Iran, now a high school student in Utah
Demonstrators protest against Royal Dutch Shell near the Polar Pioneer oil drilling rig on May 16, 2015, in Seattle.
Environment
$7 billion later, a dry well sends Shell home from the Arctic
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses attendees during the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York, September 28, 2015.
Global Politics
Putin returns to the UN to cut a deal with the West on Syria
London's Cereal Killer Cafe was targeted as a symbol of gentrification
Conflict
Anti-hipster protest in London targets breakfast cereal cafe
Elizabeth Williams and Ashley Judd
Development
Ashley Judd to girls worldwide: We go from hurting to healing to helping
Refugees set up tents at the main port. They're hoping to get tickets for a ferry like this that will take them to Greece.
Global Politics
Afghan refugees wonder, ‘what about us?’
Jacob Kirkegaard recording in the Chernobyl exclusion zone: "It's a kind of a no place and so I thought: How can I record such a place because my presence ... changes so much?"
Arts
A man who travels the world not to see things, but hear them
walking_at_night
Culture
Indian college women push back against curfews
The newly detected features on Pluto's surface have been compared to dragon scales and tree bark
Science
‘Dazzling and mystifying’ new features detected on the surface of Pluto
ships in levos
Conflict
Landfall. A selfie. Another refugee celebrates survival.
Muslim pilgrims pray around the holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque ahead of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca.
Belief
Reeling from this tragedy at the Hajj, what can we learn for the future?
"Gold Fever" book cover.
Culture
How a proper Englishman caught gold fever in the American ‘Wild West’
Development
Confronting gender disparity? Start with chores, these Indian teens say.
pope argentina
Belief
Trans rights are changing in the Catholic world, and Argentina is leading the pack
Maria Jaakkola at a screening of her video about Boston's Emerald Necklace
Environment
A Finnish landscape architect tries to connect the broken pieces of Boston’s Emerald Necklace
A man walks amid rubble of damaged buildings after what activists said was a mortar shell thrown on an area after air strikes by forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad in Ain Tarma, in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus, on April 5, 2015
Conflict
In a besieged part of Damascus, Eid comes with few blessings for Syrians who feel abandoned by US
Cuba's President Raul Castro oversees a handshake between Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos (left) and FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono (right), better known by the nom de guerre Timochenko.
Conflict
Bitter foes strike a deal for peace in Colombia
Muslim pilgrims and rescuers gather around people who were crushed by overcrowding in Mina, Saudi Arabia during the annual hajj pilgrimage.
Belief
Shaken and shocked pilgrims pray on after a deadly stampede kills more than 700
Gramick
Belief
Pope preaches inclusion, so what’s this mean for LGBT Catholics?
(Left photo) Mariela, Jefferson and Ilda Sarmiento in the US and (Right photo) Johan in Honduras.
Conflict
One family, 2 nations: How to stay together while US keeps them apart
A car falls as it is being lifted by a crane at the site of a Saudi-led air strike in Yemen's capital Sanaa
Conflict
Will US stop arming Saudi attackers in Yemen? Elizabeth Warren responds. Sort of.
Nour in a tent allocated to her uncle and his family in a camp for displaced people in Dohuk, northern Iraq.
Conflict
Yazidi plan to ‘rebaptize’ women enslaved by ISIS is working … sort of
Danish Ali of Pakistan is astandup comedian, director, actor, and doctor (a real medical doctor!). His latest viral video is "Muslims rejoice at being able to take their clocks to school."
Culture
‘Thank you so much for giving us Muslims the freedom to take our giant cumbersome clocks to school’
Ahmed and his family came to Munich from Syria. He is carrying his young cousin. He came to Germany “for studying, good work, and to get married and have a baby from [a] German.”
Conflict
What happens to the migrants after they get to Germany?
Pope Francis waves to the crowd from the Speaker's Balcony on the West Front of the Capitol as he stands with Vice President Joe Biden (L) and Speaker of the House John Boehner (R) after concluding his address before a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress o
Belief
Francis is challenging America’s political power brokers
A new film follows one Syrian family through five years of upheaval (Sean McAllister)
Conflict
A Syrian love story
VW logo
Business
VW scandal threatens ‘Made in Germany’ image
Jorge Mario Bergoglio (center) now known as Pope Francis visiting a Buenos Aires slum in 1998.
Conflict
Was Pope Francis silent during Argentina’s Dirty War?
U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with Pope Francis during a welcoming ceremony at the White House in Washington on September 23, 2015.
Global Politics
In Washington, Pope Francis wears a political hat
A vender sells balloons to refugees in Izmir, Turkey who are planning to get to Greece by boat.
Conflict
Despite the risks, a refugee from Iraq has decided to try to leave Turkey — by jet ski
Pope Francis waves as he departs Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, in a Fiat 500 after arriving for his first trip to the United States.
Technology
A short story about the long history of the Popemobile
Yogi Berra
Sports
The neighborhood that taught Yogi Berra to take those forks in the road
A chalkboard lists the day's prices for coca - according to the quality of the leaves - in the Villa Fátima legal coca market in La Paz.
Culture
Coca is known as the main ingredient in cocaine. But for Bolivia, it’s more than that.
President Barack Obama and First lady Michelle Obama were there in person to welcome Pope Francis at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland for the pontiff's first visit to the United States on September 22, 2015.
Belief
Pope Francis wants the Vatican to serve the people
Martin Shkreli
Health
A drug that used to cost $13.50 per tablet rose to $750. Can that be justified?
only child
Health
The view from a 30-something only child as China does away with its one-child policy
Global Politics
Salman Rushdie: We must look at the root causes of the refugee crisis
A US Volkswagen executive has admitted that his company ‘totally screwed up’ by rigging the emission test results of around 11 million of its vehicles worldwide (REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann).
Environment
Being ‘endlessly sorry’ may not put an end to VW’s emissions scam troubles
In Salman Rushdie's fantastical new novel, shape-shifting genies lay siege to humanity.
Culture
Salman Rushdie’s new novel is a fantastical portrait of beguiling genies who threaten humanity. So, yeah, it’s pretty much today’s world.
Cantor Chaim Adler looks over the sheet music from the Kol Nidre prayer, sung on the eve of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.
Culture
The best free concert in Jerusalem takes place on Yom Kippur
The coastal Japanese city of Ishinomaki, before the Tsunami... and today.
Development
In search of an owner… our reporter tracks down a Japanese diver nearly devastated by the 2011 tsunami
Pope Francis and Cuba's President Raul Castro confer in Havana on Sunday.
Arts
Cuban artists ask why their government won’t let them create
A Volkswagen 2016 Touareg TDI is seen at a VW dealership.
Environment
Volkswagen didn’t engineer a fix to its dirty diesel fumes: It faked out regulators
Migrants wait to board a train at the train station in Tovarnik, Croatia.
Conflict
Croatia struggles to cope with influx of refugees and migrants
People celebrate during the Ganesh festival in Mumbai.
Culture
Why the Ganesh festival is noisy, colorful and insane
Pope Francis
Belief
Why I’m joining 50,000 Latinos greeting Pope Francis in Washington, DC, this week