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Man Kaur of India celebrates after competing in the 100-meter sprint in the 100+ age category at the World Masters Games in Auckland, New Zealand, in April 2017. Michael Bradley/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Warrior pose does not intimidate this kid. Marc Silver/NPR hide caption
Alan McElligott, a professor of animal behavior, is eager to learn more about goat-human interactions. Alan McElligott hide caption
Kennedy Odede (in blue shirt) is dancing for a good reason. The charity he and his wife started has been awarded the $2 million Hilton Humanitarian Prize. He's joined by residents of Kibera, the neighborhood in Nairobi where his nonprofit group provides educational, health and clean water services. Anwar Sadat hide caption
Aretha Franklin, onstage at The Metropolitan Opera House on September 18, 2011. Jemal Countess/Getty Images hide caption
Rohingya children carrying firewood into the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh. Refugees have stripped almost all the area vegetation to use in cooking fires. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption
Soumana Saley, a leather craftsman from Niger. Pearl Mak/NPR hide caption
In 2016, NPR correspondent Ofeibea Quist-Arcton shared breakfast with Anthony Bourdain at Marché Kermel in Dakar, Senegal. CNN hide caption
A worker disinfects shoes outside the Ebola security zone at a hospital in Mbandaka in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Junior Kannah/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Consolata Aganga goes door-to-door as a community health worker, a demanding volunteer job. "It is God who gives me the strength," she says. She is also a small-scale farmer, growing vegetables for her family. Marc Silver/NPR hide caption
Winners of the 2018 Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship (from left) are Jennifer Pahlka, Harish Hande, Jess Ladd, Lesley Marincola, Anushka Ratnayake and Barbara Pierce Bush. David Fisher/Skoll Foundation hide caption
See that little brown critter and that little white critter? They're goats stuck on a bridge in western Pennsylvania. The white goat is facing in the wrong direction to walk off the beam, about 100 feet high, and return to solid ground. Todd Tilson/PA Turnpike Commission hide caption
