Mexico's former Attorney General Jesús Murillo Karam gives a news conference in Mexico City on Dec. 7, 2014. The Mexican Attorney General's Office reported on Friday it has detained Murillo Karam, who was in charge of the investigation into the disappearance of the 43 student teachers that occurred in southern Mexico in 2014. Marco Ugarte/AP hide caption
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Many Stories, One WorldA building on the old Grossinger's Hotel property was destroyed after a fire on Tuesday. The Liberty Fire Department Facebook hide caption
Finland's Prime Minister Sanna Marin holds a news conference in Helsinki on Friday after leaked videos showing her partying sparked criticism. Roni Rekomaa/Lehtikuva/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Opera star Plácido Domingo at a press conference in Moscow in Oct. 2019. Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
El Shafee Elsheikh has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the deaths of four U.S. hostages captured by the Islamic State. Alexandria Sheriff's Office via AP, File hide caption
People welcoming China's ship Yuan Wang 5 wave Chinese and Sri Lankan flags at Sri Lanka's Hambantota International Port in Sri Lanka, Aug. 16. Ajith Perera/Xinhua News Agency via Getty Images hide caption
Why a Chinese ship's arrival in Sri Lanka has caused alarm in India and the West
The mayor of Venice, Italy, mobilized a search for two people who used motorized surfboards to cruise down the picturesque city's canals. Now the pair are facing large fines. Venice Mayor Luigi Brugnaro / via Facebook hide caption
The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra performs at Damrosch Park, Lincoln Center in New York City on Thursday. Richard Termine hide caption
Home is never far for the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra, even when touring in the U.S.
Umar Patek, center, is shown in in Jakarta, Indonesia, Nov. 29, 2011. Tatan Syuflana/AP hide caption
Friends Nasir Dhillon (left) and Papinder Singh run a YouTube channel, Punjabi Lehar, that tries to heal the wounds of Partition through reuniting loved ones separated when British-ruled India was divided into two countries, India and Pakistan, 75 years ago. Diaa Hadid hide caption
Jewish townspeople of the village of Nasielsk, Poland in 1938. Family Affair Films, US Holocaust Memorial Museum hide caption
'The Territory' and 'Three Minutes: A Lengthening' find cinematic hope in tragedy
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Japan's alcohol industry hard, sharpening a long-running trend away from drinking. A new campaign sponsored by the National Tax Agency hopes to change that — but it's running into sharp criticism. Philip Fong/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaks in Brussels on Feb. 18. Ethiopia's government is criticizing Tedros' statement that the crisis in the country's Tigray region is "the worst disaster on Earth" and his assertion that the lack of attention from global leaders may be due to Tigrayans' skin color. Johanna Geron/AP hide caption
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska on the front cover of Vogue, photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Entitled "Portrait of Bravery," the spread and accompanying interview paint Zelenska as a woman stepping up to the challenge of her many roles in this war. Screenshot by NPR/Annie Leibovitz/Vogue hide caption
Ukraine's first lady posed for 'Vogue' and sparked discussion on how to #SitLikeAGirl
An activist holds a placard during a protest against remission of sentence by the government to convicts of a gang rape, in New Delhi, India, Thursday, Aug. 18, 2022. Altaf Qadri/AP hide caption
A sea of flowers lies at the fenced-off Soviet Victory Monument in Riga, Latvia, on Victory Day, May 9. The site fully named The Monument to the Liberators of Soviet Latvia and Riga from the German Fascist Invaders is a 260-foot concrete spire topped with a star that was built in 1985, in the waning years of Soviet rule in Latvia. Alexander Welscher/DPA/Picture Alliance via Getty Images hide caption
Latvia plans to destroy a Soviet-era monument, riling its ethnic Russian minority
A spotted lanternfly creeps on the ground during a baseball game in Pittsburgh in 2021. Keith Srakocic/AP hide caption
Mourners carry the body of a victim of a mosque bombing in Kabul, Afghanistan, Thursday, Aug. 18. 2022. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP hide caption
An operator of the mine railway that carries people in and out of the depths of the mine waits as workers disembark. Claire Harbage/NPR hide caption
Opera star Plácido Domingo, performing at a concert in Marbella, Spain on July 11. Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A boat is pictured on the shallow Rhine river near Oestrich Winkel, western Germany, on Aug. 12, as the water level passed below 40 centimeters, making ship transport increasingly difficult. Yann Schreiber/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Germany's Rhine is at one of its lowest levels. That's trouble for the top EU economy
A man uses a hand fan in a park in central Madrid during a heat wave. Thomas Coex/AFP via Getty Images hide caption