This graffiti in a neighborhood in Cairo is emblazoned with the words "no harassment" in Arabic. Mural by Mira Shihadeh via AP hide caption

Cocktail avocados: adorable, seedless — safer for those who can't cut the kind with a pit? Maanvi Singh/for NPR hide caption

Brick Lane is a street in the London borough of Tower Hamlets. It is famous for its many curry houses. Victor Cardoner/Getty Images hide caption

Fousseni and Foussena, age 4 Anush Babajanyan hide caption

One near-beer pioneer is Heineken, which launched alcohol-free Heineken 0.0 this summer in Europe and Israel. Koen Van Weel/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

Man diving, Ganges floods, Benares, Uttar Pradesh, 1985. Raghubir Singh/© 2017 Succession Raghubir Singh hide caption

Nirma, 16, plays with her friends. She is married but still lives with her parents and talks to her husband on the phone sometimes. She is nervous about the duties she'll have to take on when she does move in with her husband. At the moment, she hopes to graduate high school and eventually become a doctor. Saumya Khandelwal hide caption

Betsy Levy Paluck is a psychology professor at Princeton University. She ran a year-long experiment in Rwanda to see whether radio soap operas could be used to reduce prejudice. John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation hide caption

There is a growing demand for nonalcoholic, high-end beverages in the U.S., coming on the heels of a trend across the pond. Tilley Harris and Alex Pielak/Flickr hide caption

Children in Il Ngwesi, Kenya, horse around in their schoolyard. Anthony Asael/Via AP Images hide caption

Chef Douglas McMaster is committed to a "zero waste" ethos in his restaurants. Here, he plates up his creations at Silo, his flagship restaurant, in Brighton, England, about an hour south of London. Xavier Buendia/Courtesy of Doug McMaster hide caption

Khaleed Khatib was the videographer for the Oscar-winning Netflix documentary The White Helmets. "This photo was after double tap of aircraft on July 27, 2014," he says, referring to an airstrike followed by another attack. "I don't know how I survived." Fadi al Halabi/Courtesy of Khaleed Khatib hide caption

Syrian refugees at the Zaatari refugee camp on the Jordanian border on 31 May 2017. NurPhoto/Getty Images hide caption