Leena Khandwala, 44, at her family home in Karachi, Pakistan. After members of her religious community in the U.S. and Australia were arrested for performing female genital mutilation, she decided to go public about her childhood experience of being cut. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
The tick Haemaphysalis longicornis. Tadhgh Rainey hide caption
Muslims circle the Kaaba, located in the Great Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, as part of their Islamic pilgrimage. Rasoul Ali/Getty Images hide caption
A young white rhino, drugged and blindfolded, is about to be released into the Okavango Delta in Botswana. It was relocated from South Africa to protect it from poachers. Neil Aldridge/World Press Photo hide caption
A newborn child in Bangladesh. Karen Kasmauski/Getty Images hide caption
At a marketplace in Lagos, a tray of garri, a powdery foodstuff made from cassava that can be eaten or drunk. During dry season, rats scavenge for food and can spread Lassa fever by defecating or urinating in foods like garri. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Amina Ahmed at home in Oromo, Ethiopia. Before having cataracts removed from both her eyes, she had been blind for four years. Jason Beaubien/NPR hide caption
Donald Trump Jr. at a photo session after visiting Trump Tower Kolkata, a Trump Organization apartment building in India. Its website says it is "synonymous with celebrated luxury." Debajyoti Chakraborty/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
A measles vaccine, such as the one shown here from a Los Angeles clinic, is highly effective in preventing the spread of measles. Lucy Nicholson/Reuters hide caption
Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte discouraged condom use while addressing Filipino workers returning home from Kuwait on Feb. 13 near Manila. Bullit Marquez/AP hide caption
A scene from Black Panther. The titular hero, played by Chadwick Boseman, is on the right. Matt Kennedy/Marvel Studios/Getty Images hide caption
A Rohingya refugee carries a bag of food in the Hakimpara camp in Bangladesh. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption
Smallpox virus, colorized and magnified in this micrograph 42,000 times, is the real concern for biologists working on a cousin virus — horsepox. They're hoping to develop a better vaccine against smallpox, should that human scourge ever be used as a bioweapon. Chris Bjornberg/Science Source hide caption
Medics from a U.S. group provided care for wounded civilians during the Iraqi government's offensive to retake the city of Mosul from ISIS. AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images hide caption