Uri Berliner drinking coffee at the NPR headquarters. Meredith Rizzo/NPR hide caption

After winning Italy's version of The Voice, Sister Cristina Scuccia thanks God on stage in Milan alongside her coach, Italian rapper J-Ax. Marco Bertorello/Getty Images hide caption

Chinese paramilitary police march at Tiananmen Square in Beijing during winter 2014. Goh Chai Hin/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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A Pakistani man reads a newspaper at a closed market in Karachi on Wednesday following the arrest of Altaf Hussain. For more than two decades, Hussain has wielded control over his party — and, by extension, parts of the city — from half a world away in London. Asif Hassan/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Filmmaker John Waters recently hitchhiked across America and said it reaffirmed his belief in the goodness of people. Jason Kempin/Getty Images for EJAF hide caption