Organizers of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games want to make use of the Seine River, even for some swimming events. Cleaning up the city's famous waterway is proving difficult though.
The spacecraft took off on board a satellite launch vehicle from the Sriharikota space center in southern India on a quest to study the sun from a point about 930,000 miles from earth, known as L-1.
Swedish lawmakers had said they would boycott this year's Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm after the foundation initially invited representatives of the three countries to attend.
Richardson, who previously served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, was also known for his volunteer efforts to free Americans held in foreign countries.
NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Miami Herald Caribbean Correspondent Jacqueline Charles about the horrific uptick of violence in Haiti, where vigilantes and gangs are engaged in deadly clashes.
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with novelist Aisha Abdel Gawad about her new novel Between Two Moons. It's a coming of age story about teenage twins in Brooklyn and takes place during one month of Ramadan.
After five years of chaos in the streets, Paris is saying goodbye to electric scooters. One of the first major cities to embrace them is now the first major capital to fall out of love and ban them.
The unwanted kiss a Spanish soccer official planted on a female player after the team won the FIFA World Cup has galvanized Spain's "se acabo" feminist movement: "That's enough."