After years of being treated like she's not there, Mindy Kaling realizes she just might be invisible. YouTube hide caption
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Saturday
"Through music," says former child soldier Emmanuel Jal, "I was able to become a child again." Courtesy of Gatwitch hide caption
A Former Child Soldier Finds Escape, Heaven Through His Music
Friday
A Vietnamese boy is treated for measles in a state-run hospital in April 2014. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Measles Is A Killer: It Took 145,000 Lives Worldwide Last Year
Augustine Goba (right) heads the laboratory at Kenema Government Hospital in Sierra Leone. He and colleagues analyzed the viral genetics in blood samples from 78 Ebola patients early in the epidemic. Stephen Gire/AP hide caption
Thursday
Ebola cases have steadily declined in Liberia and Sierra Leone over the past several weeks. World Health Organization hide caption
Wednesday
A couple of male, genetically modified Aedes aegypti mosquitoes take flight. Dr Derric Nimmo/Oxitec hide caption
Florida Health Officials Hope To Test GMO Mosquitoes This Spring
Can you find Australia and Canada? The cartogram scales each country's geographic area by its population. (Click through to see a high-resolution map.) Original work courtesy of Paul Breding. Copyright 2005, ODTMaps.com, Amherst, MA. Adapted by Reddit user TeaDranks hide caption
Tuesday
A Pakistani polio vaccination worker gives a dose to a child in Islamabad during a 2014 campaign. Farooq Naeem/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
It's Been A Hard 12-Step Road For Zanzibar's Heroin Addicts
Monday
An employee in a Sydney bookshop in 2012 adjusts packaged cigarettes, which have to be sold in identical olive-brown packets bearing the same typeface and largely covered with graphic health warnings. William West/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Guinea's Grand Imam, El Hadj Mamadou Saliou Camara, tells his fellow clerics: "If there is any doubt at all, then no one must touch the body." Kevin Leahy/NPR hide caption
Guinea's Grand Imam Pulls No Punches In His Ebola Message
Friday
An employee of the drug company Apotex, examines some Ciprofloxacin at the plant in Canada. Cipro is commonly given to travelers for diarrhea. More than 20 million Cipro doses are prescribed each year in the U.S. Getty Images hide caption
Cellphones are everywhere in the developing world, as this Nairobi street scene shows. Bill and Melinda Gates believe the phones can be used for everything from farmer education to instant banking. Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
American Millennial Missionary In Guinea Isn't Scared Off By Ebola
Thursday
In November, women in El Salvador marched for the freedom of 17 women accused of abortion, including Carmen Guadalupe Vasquez Aldana. She was pardoned this week. Luis Galdamez/Xinhua /Landov hide caption