Corn from a fall harvest in Guatemala. John Seaton Callahan/Getty Images hide caption
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Suande, whose uncle died the previous month, lays a cloth over his uncle's coffin on the eve of the funeral. Tommy Trenchard and Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville hide caption
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Botswana has the world's largest elephant population, with some 130,000 animals. Greg Du Toit/Barcroft Images/Barcroft Media/Getty Images hide caption
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Orthopedic surgeon Kebba Marenah and his team get ready to perform knee surgery on a 14-year-old at the Edward Francis Small Teaching Hospital in Banjul, the capital of Gambia. The country struggles with a lack of access to sufficient pain medications. Samantha Reinders for NPR hide caption
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Residents of Sydney attend a rally last month at Parliament House in support of decriminalizing abortion. Brook Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
Wednesday
Stacy Jupiter, a newly named MacArthur Fellow, poses with a puppet used in a show she staged for kids about how to protect fish. Jupiter is a marine scientist who works on ocean issues in Fiji. Rebecca Weeks hide caption
Tuesday
A man stands in his wrecked home in Macomia, Mozambique, after Cyclone Kenneth in April. It was the second intense cyclone to strike the country in six weeks. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption
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A girl receives the Ebola vaccine in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo. Jerome Delay/AP hide caption
Friday
Belinda Qaqamba Ka-Fassie poses at a community space where women cook and sell meat. She started drag as an escape from oppression she felt at Stellenbosch University for being "black, Xhosa, poor, queer and effeminate." "It is through pageantry and performance that I became more inclined with my queerness and how boundless expression should be," she says. "Drag became the therapist I never had." Lee-Ann Olwage hide caption
A toilet at a refugee camp in Malawi. Peter Turnley/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images hide caption
Thursday
A computer illustration of the virus that causes smallpox. The virus was eradicated in 1980, but live samples are kept in two known labs for research. Science Artwork/Science Photo Library/Getty Images hide caption
A pharmacist collects packets of boxed medication from the shelves of a pharmacy in London, U.K. A proposal announced by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Thursday would allow the government to directly negotiate the price of 250 U.S. drugs, using what the drugs cost in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom as a baseline. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
How An 'International Price Index' Might Help Reduce Drug Prices
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A roadside tobacco shop vendor displays an e-cigarette in New Delhi, India, Wednesday. India's government has decided to ban the products. Manish Swarup/AP hide caption
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In this March 28 photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a campaign rally in Meerut. One of his efforts as prime minister has been to construct millions of toilets to reduce open defecation. Altaf Qadri/AP hide caption
In Mumbai, some prosperous neighborhoods sit alongside slums. This year's Gates report on progress toward eliminating poverty notes that there is vast inequality not only between nations, but within many of them. @johnny_miller_photography hide caption