Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt in Mission Impossible — Fallout. Paramount Pictures hide caption
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Friday
Tima Kurdi holds her necklace bearing a photograph of her nephews, Alan (left) and Ghalib Kurdi. She is the author of The Boy on the Beach: My Family's Escape from Syria and Our Hope for a New Home. Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
A woman from Chad washes her baby at a site for internally displaced persons. They had fled their village after an attack. Marco Di Lauro/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
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
Tuesday
Monday
Cedric Habiyaremye and his mother, Agnes Mukankwaya, on a quinoa farm in Rwanda. Cedric Habiyaremye hide caption
Health workers remove their protective suits at a treatment center set up by Doctors without Borders in Mangina, a town in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Karin Huster hide caption
Sunday
Jorge Odón, inventor of the Odón Device — described in a past NPR story as a tool for "popping a baby out like a cork." Pearl Mak/NPR hide caption
Saturday
Wedding dresses come in bold hues at Salon Al Fardous — Paradise Salon. The rent-a-gown shop looks out on the temporary housing and makeshift stores in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Adib Chowdhury hide caption
Thursday
These mosquitoes have been fed a new artificial blood called "SkitoSnack." Kristina Gonzales hide caption
Wednesday
Gay Pride marchers parade through Manhattan carrying a banner that reads, "A.I.D.S.: We need research, not hysteria!" in June 1983. Barbara Alper/Getty Images hide caption
Long Before Facebook, The KGB Spread Fake News About AIDS
The Border Security Force distributes food and water in the aftermath of the flooding in Kerala. Online volunteers helped find out what people needed to get by — and shared public health messages. Atul Loke/Getty Images hide caption
Tuesday
Sangita Magar bears the scars of an acid attack that took place three years ago. She was a plaintiff in a public interest case to change Nepal's law on acid and burn violence. Sajana Shrestha for NPR hide caption
Sunday
