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Soleman Nessa's husband took his own life after authorities questioned his citizenship. "It was the month of Ramadan. The sun was rising. We were boiling rice and when my son went to the kitchen to get something, he saw my husband hanging there. He scream

World News

In India's Assam State, Residents Of River Islands Face Uncertainty Over Citizenship

8:28am July 21, 2019

by CK Vijayakumar

Some 4 million people, many Muslim and impoverished, were excluded from a 2018 official register of citizens. Photographer CK Vijayakumar visited Assam to learn more about the challenges they face.

Some families dedicate an entire room to storing the dress, which is composed of many parts, including pantaloons, a parasol, a hoop skirt and a sash.

Arts

The Dress Hasn't Changed, But The Girls Have

8:57pm July 07, 2019

by Lindsey Feingold

Photographer Adair Rutledge returned to Alabama to learn how the Azalea Trail Maids are redefining what it means to be a symbol of the South — while they wear a 50-pound, custom-made antebellum dress.

Luthier Freeman Vines sits with his hand-carved guitars in the tobacco field by his house, 2015.

Capturing The Undersung Blues People Of The Rural South

8:09am July 07, 2019

by Debbie Elliott

Tim Duffy started Music Maker Relief Foundation to support blues musicians lost to time and poverty. He's also photographed their portraits for a new book, compilation album and museum exhibition.

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A kid tries to beat the heat in New Delhi on June 15. The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.

Temps Have Topped 120 In India. How Are They Coping With The Heat Wave?

5:07pm July 02, 2019

by Lauren Frayer

The changing climate is especially brutal in India. Temperatures are soaring. Asphalt roads are melting. People are dying.

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In Nigeria's oil-rich Niger Delta, oil bunkering — the practice of siphoning oil from pipelines — has transformed parts of the once-thriving delta ecosystem into an ecological dead zone, according to the U.N. Environment Programme.

Oh Dear: Photos Show What Humans Have Done To The Planet

7:00am June 15, 2019

Some scientists say we've entered a new geological epoch — the anthropocene era — defined by the human impact on the global landscape. Three artists traveled to 22 countries to see what we've wrought.

The mobile library travels on one of its routes on the Outer Hebrides island of Lewis and Harris. For isolated residents, seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they may have for days.

World News

For Remote Communities In Scotland's Outer Hebrides, Mobile Libraries Are A Lifeline

8:01am June 08, 2019

by Celeste Noche

Library vans ply lonely roads and deliver books, including works in Gaelic, to hundreds of isolated residents. Seeing the mobile librarian is sometimes the only human contact they will have for days.

Fatima Dahiru, now 17, lives with her sister and mother in an internally displaced persons camp in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Her village was attacked two years ago.

PHOTOS: The Powerful Faces Of Women Who Faced Danger

4:05pm June 07, 2019

by Susie Neilson

In a new project, photographer Robin Hammond made portraits of women who've lived through fighting and violence. He found pain, sorrow, anger, hope — and even joy.

D-Day veteran C-47 Placid Lassie sits on the flight line at England's Imperial War Museum Duxford.

'Ready! Go!': I Jumped Out Of A Vintage WWII Plane For D-Day

4:50pm June 06, 2019

by Luke Sharrett

Photographer Luke Sharrett marked the invasion's 75th anniversary by parachuting out of a plane in Normandy. This was his way of honoring World War II veterans.

Students stand face to face with police. Tens of thousands of students from across the country, as well as professors, blue-collar workers and passersby, joined the protests.

World News

30 Years After Tiananmen Protests, 'The Fight Is Still Going On For China'

1:16pm May 31, 2019

by NPR Staff

Rare photos and testimonies from 1989 portray a bold youth movement that helped shape where China is today and how the world sees it, in spite of authorities' efforts to erase the memory.

Hannah Bloch, an editor on NPR's international desk, shared this photo her great-grandfather took in 1931, with Notre Dame in the background. He had served as a U.S. Army doctor in France during World War I and returned on holiday years later.

World News

Here Are Some Of Your Favorite Memories Of Notre Dame

6:06pm April 17, 2019

We asked our audience to share thoughts after fire devastated the beloved Paris cathedral on Monday. We received hundreds of responses — photos, memories, even watercolor sketches. Here are a few.