To preserve the spirit of the Games, Paris' mayor has proposed making the five Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. Now the Eiffel family has gotten involved.

A Mr. Bean-style comic, a pygmy hippo and a Filipino teen who's been doing dance videos since she was 9 years old: we look at this year's top TikToks of the Global South.

A lesser-known amphibious landing along France's Mediterranean played a big role in liberating the country from the Nazis. Those troops were under French command, but hailed mostly from Africa.

Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...

The sanctuary in Washington state said it was working with officials to determine the cause of the outbreak, which has killed ...

A round of Israeli airstrikes targeted the Houthi rebel-held capital and multiple ports. The head of the World Health ...

Public radio music stations welcome hundreds of musicians a year into their studios for intimate versions of songs you won't ...

They make their living off the sea, but their catch is dwindling. So these traditional fisherfolk are taking steps to ...

NPR's Asma Khalid speaks with Rev. Munther Isaac of Bethlehem's Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church about Christmas in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

The northern California coast is home to the tallest trees in the world, but a rivalry over who has the tallest decorated tree is brewing.

H-1B visas, the kind many foreign scientists need to work in the U.S. became harder to get in the first Trump Administration. That's likely to happen again.

Honda and Nissan have started talks to pursue a merger, a deal that could create the world's third-biggest automaker. The two major Japanese companies are hoping that joining hands will allow them to ...