Women usually clean and cook at their in-laws' — but many stayed home this year. "It's difficult to understand why we have to do so much hard work when it's not even for our own ancestors," one says.
The prize goes to Roger Penrose, Reinhard Genzel and Andrea Ghez. Ghez says she hopes it will inspire young people, and particularly women, to pursue careers in science.
ISIS fell more than a year and a half ago, but tens of thousands of women and children still languish in detention camps in Syria. Kurdish officials said they will start releasing thousands of them.
South Korea handled the coronavirus crisis well, but mid-pandemic doctors went on strike. Some say their profession is in crisis, with many abandoning essential medicine to go into cosmetic surgery.
Conservative Colombian elected officials are supporting President Trump's reelection and calling Joe Biden a socialist. NPR discusses what it means for the election races in Florida.
A new database from U.N. Women and UNDP looks at how 206 countries and territories are responding to women's needs during the pandemic. And the results are mixed.
Azerbaijan's second-largest city was targeted by missiles on Sunday, government officials say. Armenia denied the charges. The clash is part of a decades-long dispute over territory.
A Montreal artist installed a suggestion box for the universe. The responses have given him a window into the fears and hopes of the city through the pandemic.
President Trump is not the only world leader to contract the coronavirus. The examples of the U.K.'s Boris Johnson and Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro may have lessons for the U.S. at this moment.