The coronavirus, the rescue of an abused elephant, harassment of Black diplomats and the hunt for Nazi-looted instruments are some of the subjects of the year's most popular NPR international stories.
Dr. Gagandeep Kang says the pandemic's toll on India has been much less than what she had feared. She reflects on what the country has learned over the past few months.
While Israel has already vaccinated half a million citizens against the coronavirus, the vaccine timeline for poor countries will be much longer. We look at Israel, Pakistan and the Philippines.
Beyoncé's Africa video, Inuit advice on raising kids without yelling and ... locusts! Here's the surprising mix of stories Goats and Soda readers loved in 2020 that have nothing to do with COVID-19.
Even as the European Union began vaccine rollouts on Sunday, nations around the globe are instituting severe lockdowns and travel restrictions. Fear of the U.K. variant is a key reason.
They met and fell in love while working for a nonprofit in his country. He came to visit her in the Netherlands. Because of the pandemic, his hometown visited lasted 7 months. Would love conquer all?
Mathematical modeling suggests that the mutations in this variant make the virus more transmissible. What does that mean for preventive measures — and the new vaccines?
The jungle metropolis of Manaus had a terrible pandemic spring. A study estimates 76% of residents were exposed to the coronavirus. Researchers thought there couldn't be another surge. And yet...
In 2020, NPR created and published more than a dozen comics for the pandemic — everything from how to explain it to kids to how to help the older people in your life.
Nearly two months after Election Day, Facebook still prohibits political ads. The ban is frustrating some elected leaders who say it makes it harder to get out information about the pandemic.
Could smoke carry disease-causing microorganisms? "It's a very new idea to think of smoke as having a living component," says Leda Kobziar, co-author of an article that explores this theory.
"I will be helpful in any role that people think I can be helpful in, and then I will retire," Birx, who has spend more than three decades in public health service, told Newsy on Tuesday.
There's cause for concern. But how concerned should we be? Here's a rundown of the current thinking on key issues as transmission, severity of disease — and effectiveness of vaccines.
The Vatican said it's permitted to get COVID-19 vaccines due to the "grave danger" of the pandemic, even if scientists used "cell lines from aborted fetuses in their research and production process."
'Priya's Mask' is the latest in the Indian superhero comic series. This time out, she's trying to get important info to young people — and to stop a superspreading villain.
During the pandemic, Japan's government has been subsidizing travel and tourism to juice the economy. After a spike in coronavirus cases, it will now suspend the program for two weeks.
NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Thomas Bollyky of the global health program at the Council on Foreign Relations about the implications of tracking people who get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Back in March, two people were stuck in Wuhan, China — the pandemic's first epicenter. We check in with them again as they navigate work and family life.
The reviewer's father, who was born in Wuhan and lived there until he was 28, couldn't bear to keep watching. But she did — and was deeply moved by this new documentary film.
MERS, Ebola, and COVID-19—the viruses that cause these diseases likely have the same patient zero: bats. For researcher Daniel Streicker, the key to preventing an outbreak is the bats themselves.
