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Encore: Virtual reality brings Indian and Pakistani residents back home

5:41pm August 14, 2022

by Lauren Frayer

With virtual reality headsets, elderly survivors of the partition between India and Pakistan are getting 360-degree views of their long-lost homes — on opposite sides of the international border.

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Remembering the day the Taliban took control of Afghanistan

5:20pm August 14, 2022

One year later, the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan has changed life for ordinary Afghans.

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Freya the walrus is pictured sitting on a boat in Frognerkilen in Oslo, Norway, on July 18. Authorities in Norway said on Sunday that they have euthanized the walrus that had drawn crowds of spectators in the Oslo Fjord after concluding it posed a risk to

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Freya the walrus drew crowds of fans. And that's why Norway decided to euthanize her

4:24pm August 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Authorities had warned people not to get close to her or pose for photos with the massive mammal. As a last resort, officials decided she posed a threat to humans and needed to be euthanized.

A man takes a picture of a poster paying homage to veteran stock market investor and Indian billionaire Rakesh Jhunjhunwala in Mumbai, India, on Sunday. Jhunjhunwala, died at the age of 62.

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Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, nicknamed India's Warren Buffett, dies at 62

10:48am August 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Jhunjhunwala, a chartered accountant from the northern state of Rajasthan, began investing in the stock market while he was still in college, starting off with capital of just 5,000 rupees ($63).

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One year after a devastating earthquake, Haiti's recovery efforts have stalled

10:10am August 14, 2022

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe asks Rachelle Seguin of Doctors Without Borders about conditions in Haiti now, a year after a devastating earthquake.

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Saudi Aramco engineers and journalists look at the Hawiyah Natural Gas Liquids Recovery Plant in Hawiyah, in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia in 2021.

Your price at the pump went up. So did Saudi Aramco's profits — to a new record

10:05am August 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

Saudi energy company Aramco said Sunday its profits jumped 90% in the second quarter compared to the same time last year, helping its half-year earnings reach nearly $88 billion.

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Under Taliban guard, Afghanistan's national museum has reopened

9:57am August 14, 2022

by Arezou Rezvani

The Taliban now guard Afghanistan's national museum. The group has a poor record of preserving cultural artifacts and parts of the museum's collection are no longer on display.

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Emergency personnel work at the site of a fire at the Abu Sefein church that killed over 40 people and injured at least 14 others, in the densely populated neighborhood of Imbaba in Cairo.

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A fire at a church in Cairo kills 41 people and hurts 14 others

9:42am August 14, 2022

by The Associated Press

A fire ripped through a church in a densely populated neighborhood as congregants worshipped, the Coptic Church said. It was one of the worst fire tragedies in Egypt in recent years.

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Why China is reasserting its right of control over Taiwan

9:10am August 14, 2022

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Jessica Drun of the Atlantic Council Global China Hub about China's newly aggressive posture towards Taiwan.

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American journalist Austin Tice (portrait at left) was abducted in Syria in 2012. Here, his parents, Debra and Marc Tice, give a news conference in Beirut in 2018.

10 years after Austin Tice vanished in Syria, his family continues its fight for him

6:00am August 14, 2022

by Jaclyn Diaz

American journalist Austin Tice is believed to have been kidnapped in a suburb of Damascus, Syria, in 2012. His mother says he's being held with a "government-related entity" in Syria.