You read the stories in our #15Girls series and posed some really good questions. (Wish we'd thought of them first.) Here are answers from our correspondents.
Iraqi Kurdish fighters, with support from US troops and warplanes, have begun an offensive in northern Iraq aimed at recapturing a key area west of the city of Mosul, severing the link with northern Syria. ISIS says it will fight to the last man. The latest on the ongoing operation and its significance in the wider war against the Islamic State.
Sea rise is threatening the way of life for a Panamanian indigenous group that lives on islands off the Caribbean coast. They're now pondering moving back to the mainland and abandoning their way of life.
The Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement has been hashed out line-by-line. All 6,000 pages of it. It will set the rules for roughly one-third of world trade. It has precise requirements for tariffs, quotas and subsidies for all manner of goods. But there's one huge secret tariff that isn't included: currency manipulation.
Thousands took to the streets after the killing of 7 members of a Shiite minority group. Protesters blamed the deaths on Islamist militants. Steve Inskeep talks to journalist Sune Engel Rasmussen.
Egypt says its already weak tourism industry will take big hits if the crash of a Russian jet there scares off Russian visitors. And one Egyptian talks about trying to make it in the tourism business.
China's old industrial sector continues to decline. One of the economy's sectors that is doing well is e-commerce. But is its rapid expansion enough to halt the overall slide in China's growth?
When we drive, fly or walk, we contribute to carbon emissions that cause global warming. One solution often cited is to pay to heal the harm by underwriting the cost of planting a tree.