Mina al-Najar, who is almost 3, received a liver transplant in April and needs surgery for complications. Her parents believed she was on an evacuation list but that turned out not to be the case. Her parents, reached by phone this week, say her only hope is medical evacuation
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Erica Lacerda de Souza, son Henrique and husband Bruce Lee de Souza, relax in their new home in Guaianazes, São Paulo. The family lost their home when the pandemic took away their livelihoods. They moved in about two months ago after being homeless, then getting a tiny transitional residence/ Gabriela Porthilo for NPR hide caption
Medical professionals and students take part in a protest rally after the rape and murder of a doctor in Kolkata on August 21. India's Supreme Court on August 20 ordered a national task force to examine how to bolster security for health workers. Dibyangshu Sarkar/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Face masks can dampen the spread of contagious diseases. OsakaWayne Studios/Getty Images/Moment RF hide caption
Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan competes during the men's javelin throw at the Olympics in Paris. He won gold, set an Olympic record — and reaped lots of prizes, including a buffalo from his father-in-law. It's all about the milk! From left: Patrick Smith/Getty Images; G A Chandio/Getty Images hide caption
Hawa Miso, 70, collects leaves to use as vegetables on the hillside near the Rabang camp for internally displaced persons in Rabang, in Sudan's Nuba Mountains. Approximately 10 million Sudanese have been displaced by the civil war that broke out in 2023. A team of experts backed by the United Nations believes the country is experiencing famine. But the government does not agree. Guy Peterson/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Heman Bekele is Time's "2024 Kid of the Year," honored for his work on a cancer-fighting soap. Last year he won a $25,000 prize from 3M for his research. Above, he's pictured with 3M mentor, Deborah Isabelle, who's said of Bekele, "he's going to continue to inspire other young people to realize that science can make a positive difference."
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A teenage girl wearing a face mask, head scarf and long black robe, listens to a math teacher at a tutoring center in Kabul. The center was established by a women's rights activist to circumvent a Taliban ban on girls attending secondary school. The activist said she has informal permission by Taliban authorities to run the center as long as teenage girls abide by a strict dress code. Diaa Hadid/NPR hide caption
"The Fine Cut" is a re-created barbershop poster that depicts two kinds of cuts — hairstyles of African-American men and ritual scarification of African faces. Vivian Doering hide caption
This Artibeus fruit bat feasts on sugary fruit every night but these winged mammals don’t suffer from diabetes or other metabolic problems as humans might if we were to gorge on sugar. Luis Echeverría for NPR hide caption
A magnification of the head of a midge larva. Midges — biting flies — and mosquitoes are spreading the Oropouche virus in Latin America, which is reporting higher numbers in 2024. Frank Fox/Science Photo Library//Science Source hide caption
The palms of a patient with mpox during a past outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. The country is now seeing a dramatic spike in mpox. CDC/BSIP/Universal Images Group via Getty Images hide caption
Elias Abdi Abdullahi, an Ethiopian farmer, carries a bunch of uprooted weeds from the wheat field he farms with his wife. They're trying to increase their crop yields in an area often threatened by conflict and drought. Ed Kiernan/PBS Newshour hide caption
Rayssa Leal of Brazil competes in the women's skateboarding street final at the Place de la Concorde. She won a bronze medal. The 16-year-old Olympian remembers that when she was a kid, a pair of sneakers without holes were an implausible dream. Rodolfo Buhrer/Eurasia Sport Images/Getty Images hide caption
Nurse Christian Musema takes a sample from a child declared a suspected mpox case at the treatment center in Munigi in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the virus has been surging. Cases have also been identified in four other countries in East Africa. Arlette Bashizi/Reuters hide caption