Ville Fantome. This construction has the largest footprint of the artist's cityscape dioramas. The skyscrapers represent different countries. For instance, the gold-and-silver tower is emblazoned with USA. Mark Abramson for NPR hide caption
Goats and Soda We're all neighbors on our tiny globe. The poor and the rich and everyone in between. We'll explore the downs and ups of life in this global village.
Rohingya children carrying firewood into the Kutupalong camp in Bangladesh. Refugees have stripped almost all the area vegetation to use in cooking fires. Allison Joyce for NPR hide caption
For the past 60 years, Dr. Mahinder Watsa, a Mumbai OB-GYN, has been writing a sex column for the local media. He gets about 100 letters a day. The writers range from teenage girls to men in their 70s. Lauren Frayer/NPR hide caption
In the movie Crazy Rich Asians, Princess Intan (Kris Aquino, left) and economist Rachel Chu (Constance Wu) meet at a wedding in Singapore and have a little tete-a-tete about, of all things, microloans. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
Deputy sergeant Mauwa Saleh is the coordinator of the seven Gender and Children desks in Zanzibar. These desks are staffed by police officers who have received training on how to interview victims and investigate reports of gender-based violence. Rebecca Grant for NPR hide caption
The Nashik Civil District Hospital is a government facility about 100 miles outside Mumbai. The director, Dr. Suresh Jagdale, acknowledges that the mortality rate is higher than that of private hospitals, but he says he's proud to offer free health treatment to India's poor. Lauren Frayer/NPR hide caption
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To Fix That Pain In Your Back, You Might Have To Change The Way You Sit
At the main ambulance base in central Freetown, Sierra Leone, a government health worker disinfects ambulances with chlorine spray during the 2014 Ebola outbreak. Tommy Trenchard hide caption
A screenshot from "KIKI Challenge | In my feelings Challenge | Shiggy Challenge | Funcho Entertainment | FC," a video by Funcho Entertainment. Funcho Entertainment via YouTube/screenshot by NPR hide caption
A cluster of rotaviruses. The image is from a transmission electron micrograph and has been colored. Dr. Gopal Murti/Science Source hide caption
The Children's Village has several grassy areas where kids can play soccer and other sports. Adriana Zehbrauskas for NPR hide caption
Students gathered at Elephant Road Circle, demanding better road safety and justice for traffic deaths, in Dhaka, Bangladesh, on August 4. Turjoy Chowdhury/NurPhoto via Getty Images hide caption
Farmers do their version of the Kiki Challenge, dancing to Drake's song "In My Feelings." In the mud. With oxen. My Village Show Vlogs via YouTube/screenshot by NPR hide caption
Bryn Sobott of the FREO2 Foundation presents his group's solution to pneumonia treatment — an oxygen delivery machine that can operate using the energy generated by running water — at a pitch competition organized by Saving Lives At Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development in Washington, D.C. Pearl Mak/NPR hide caption
A health worker monitors the temperature of a traveler from the Democratic Republic of the Congo during the Ebola outbreak that ended in July. The virus has now surfaced in another part of the country. Florent Vergnes/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A study has found that some bacteria are becoming "more tolerant" of the alcohol-based hand sanitizers used in hospitals. nano/Getty Images hide caption
Blood samples of people living with HIV in a laboratory at the AIDS Research Center in Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Sia Kambou/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Nigerian anti-trafficking activist Blessing Okoedion at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., in June. Eslah Attar/NPR hide caption
Abdul-Azeez Buba, 33, Borno, Nigeria: "Before Boko Haram attacked my community, I was a successful building engineer. I made a lot of money from constructing houses." Etinosa Yvonne Osayimwen/Courtesy of www.etinosayvonne.me hide caption
