Fireworks explode next to the Arc de Triomphe with "2023" projected on the building, at the Avenue des Champs-Elysees during New Year celebrations in Paris. Julien De Rosa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
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A man and a boy walk across the almost dried up bed of river Yamuna following hot weather in New Delhi, India, May 2, 2022. Manish Swarup/AP hide caption
Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, the first woman to lead the the World Health Organization's regional Africa office, sits in her office in Brazzaville, Congo on Feb. 8, 2022. Moses Sawasawa/AP hide caption
Nurses perform timed breathing exercises on a COVID-19 patient on a ventilator in the COVID-19 intensive care unit at the la Timone hospital in Marseille, southern France on Dec. 31, 2021. Daniel Cole/AP hide caption
Journalists report from Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 2. Media coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been massive. Pierre Crom/Getty Images hide caption
Mountaineers climb the Hillary Step during their ascend of the South face to summit Mount Everest. Lakpa Sherpa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
From left: A New Delhi woman waits in an observation room after getting the Covishield vaccine (the name used for the AstraZeneca vaccine in India) on May 26. U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson leaves a vaccination center after his first AstraZeneca dose on March 19. On March 9, Nairobi, Kenya, began vaccinating groups, including health care workers and older people, with the AstraZeneca vaccine. From left: Prakash Singh, Aaron Chown, Robert Bonet/Getty Images hide caption
It's The Vaccine That's Lost A Lot Of Trust. But AstraZeneca Still Has Its Fans
The moment British actor and comedian Stephen Fry announced Ranjitsinh Disale as the winner of the $1 million Global Teacher prize. The Varkey Foundation hide caption
The question of what to call the "developing world" is a developing debate. Jing Wei for NPR hide caption
Our global predictions for 2020 come with a zine — or mini-magazine — you can make yourself. Scroll to the slideshow below to find out how to print and fold this zine. Malaka Gharib/NPR hide caption
Indonesians independently carry out fumigation in their neighborhood to eradicate the larvae of mosquitoes that cause dengue fever. A new vaccine to prevent dengue may be on the horizon. Aditya Irawan/NurPhoto/Getty Images hide caption
Sudanese dockworkers unload bags of grain from a U.S. ship at Port Sudan on the Red Sea. Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
The Pyramids of El-Geezeh from the South West, from Egypt, Sinai and Jerusalem: A Series of Twenty Photographic Views, c. 1860. Francis Frith/Featured in Clark Art Institute hide caption
Pan Pan sniffs a birthday cake made of ice for his 30th birthday, at the China Conservation and Research Centre for the Giant Panda in Dujiangyan, on Sept. 21, 2015. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
World map, 1587, by Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594). DEA Picture Library/De Agostini/Getty Images hide caption
President Obama addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday. Richard Drew/AP hide caption
Caitlin McConnico tweeted us this picture taken in early June while camping at Makgadikgadi Pans National Park in Botswana. Courtesy of Caitlin McConnico Photography hide caption
A young man from Bali, Indonesia, shows off his rainbow-colored rooster before a cockfight. Courtesy of Ruben Salgado Escudero and the World Photography Organization hide caption
Young girls drink water from a canal flowing between nearby refugee camps and the main road in Peshawar, Pakistan. Majority World/UIG via Getty Images hide caption
