President Biden, pictured leaving the Oval Office on Oct. 15, is traveling to Rome and Glasgow during the second foreign trip of his presidency. Drew Angerer/Getty Images hide caption
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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, seen during a news conference in Brasilia last week, has insisted that he is innocent of the charges proposed against him. Evaristo Sa/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
Emissions rise from a smokestack in Ohio. The United States has contributed more heat-trapping pollution than any country over time and has been the prime driver of global climate change. Dane Rhys/Bloomberg Creative/Getty Images hide caption
How decades of disinformation about fossil fuels halted U.S. climate policy
Josh Cavallo of Adelaide, left, and Daniel Stynes of the Glory contest for the ball during the A-League match between Perth Glory and Adelaide United at HBF Park, on May 19 in Perth, Australia. Paul Kane/Getty Images hide caption
United Nations-backed Medicines Patent Pool reached an agreement with Merck and its partner Ridgeback Biotherapeutics allowing MPP to license the manufacture of molnupiravir to pharmaceutical companies across the globe. Christopher Occhicone/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Julian Assange's partner, Stella Moris, addresses protestors outside the High Court in London, Wednesday. The U.S. government is scheduled to ask Britain's High Court to overturn a judge's decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should not be sent to the United States to face espionage charges. A lower court judge refused extradition in January on health grounds. Frank Augstein/AP hide caption
A worker leans against a gasoline pump that has been turned off at a gas station in Tehran. Gas stations across Iran on Tuesday suffered through a widespread outage of a system that allows consumers to buy fuel with a government-issued card, stopping sales. Vahid Salemi/AP hide caption
The ferris wheel Ain Dubai in the Gulf Emirate of Dubai on Jan. 18, 2020. Giuseppe Cacace/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
A paramilitary vehicle passes the front gate of Government Medical College in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir on Tuesday. Police have registered two separate cases under harsh anti-terror law against students and some staff of two medical colleges for celebrating Pakistan's victory over archrival India in a T20 World Cup cricket game. Mukhtar Khan/AP hide caption
Skimpflation is giving you less for your money. Pixabay hide caption
Princess Mako, who became Mako Komuro, and her husband, Kei Komuro, pose during a news conference at Grand Arc Hotel on Tuesday in Tokyo to announce their wedding. Nicolas Datiche/Pool//Getty Images hide caption
Sudanese protesters lift national flags as they rally on 60th Street in the capital Khartoum, to denounce overnight detentions by the army of government members, on Oct. 25, 2021. AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Containers of Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses, donated by the United States, arrive in Bogota, Colombia, in July. The U.S. plans to send more than a billion vaccines abroad by September 2022. Leonardo Munoz/AFP via Getty Images hide caption
What the U.S. can — and cannot — do for vaccine equity per the State Department
Two men who slipped and fell on a steep rock leading into rough waters at a park in British Columbia were saved thanks to a group of Sikh men who unraveled and removed their turbans to create a makeshift rope. @OMNIpunjabi/Screenshot by NPR hide caption
Emissions rise from Duke Energy's coal-fired Asheville power plant in Arden, N.C., in 2018. Charles Mostoller/Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption
Children from Hong Kong sing at the Sutton Friendship Festival last month as the London borough welcomed new arrivals from the former British colony. Frank Langfitt/NPR hide caption
The U.K. is welcoming tens of thousands from Hong Kong on a new path to citizenship
Artists paint a mural on a wall near Scottish Events Centre (SEC) in Glasgow, which will host the U.N. climate summit starting Sunday. Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images hide caption
The COP26 summit to fight climate change is about to start. Here's what to expect
In this frame taken from video people gather Monday during a protest in Khartoum, Sudan. Military forces arrested Sudan's acting prime minister and senior government officials Monday, disrupted internet access and blocked bridges in the capital Khartoum, the country's information ministry said, describing the actions as a coup. AP hide caption
In this photo released by the Colombian presidential press office, one of the country's most wanted drug traffickers, Dairo Antonio Usuga, alias "Otoniel," leader of the violent Clan del Golfo cartel, is presented to the media at a military base in Necocli, Colombia, Saturday, Oct. 23. AP hide caption
Xining's Dongguan Mosque has been a source of community for Chinese Muslims for seven centuries. Here, Hui Muslim men pray in the mosque in 1983. Dru Gladney/Pomona College hide caption