In a year where there was a plethora of bad news around the world — climate, conflict and more — there were moments of joy in ...

Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev said Sunday that the Azerbaijani airliner that crashed last week was shot down by Russia, ...

An emerging film festival in Lagos, Nigeria is trying to change the stories mainstream Nigerian films tell.

Two veterans who had repeated exposure to blasts developed the same rare brain malformation. (This story first aired on All Things Considered on December 27, 2024.) ...

As Russia's army advances on coal mines powering Ukraine and its steel industry, women in a small coal town adjust to new roles as miners. They've replaced men who're now fighting on the frontlines.

A new Congress starts this week, with questions about whether House Speaker Mike Johnson can stay in his job and if GOP in-fighting will be an obstacle as the new Trump administration kicks off.

HIV/AIDS cases and deaths have gone up dramatically in the Philippines in the last decade, even though there are drugs to both prevent transmission and to treat the disease.

Native American New Year was celebrated on the solstice under a canopy of winter stars. Near a crackling bonfire, the ...

General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says he and colleagues "escaped death narrowly" when an Israeli airstrike targeted Yemen's ...

NASA's Parker Solar Space Probe got closer to the sun than any other human-made object. NPR talks to the scientist behind the project, Nour Rawafi.

OWENS: I like to just start reflecting on the things that have changed, the loss that I've experienced, the people that have transitioned in my life, offering prayers or aspirations that, wherever ...

NPR's Andrew Limbong speaks with writer Colette Shade about her book "Y2K: How the 2000s Became Everything (Essays on the Future That Never Was)." ...