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

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

BRUSSELS — Belgium will ban the sale of disposable electronic cigarettes as of Jan. 1 on health and environmental grounds in ...

In December 1999, the world prepared for the impending global meltdown known as Y2K. It all stemmed from a seemingly small ...

The discount chain Big Lots, which filed for bankruptcy protection in September, has reached a deal that will keep hundreds ...

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said her agency will need to start taking "extraordinary measures," or special ...

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

Two Israeli soldiers who served in the war in Gaza this year speak to NPR about how they are wrestling with what they witnessed.

A plane carrying 181 people crashed during landing and caught fire in Muan, South Korea, killing most of its passengers. It had issued a Mayday prior to the crash.

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.) ...

Kate Kennedy tells the tales of 4 cellists and their missing instruments in her new book, "Cello." She talks about them with NPR's Daniel Estrin, who's also a cellist.

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.