A view of the ancient site of Gobekli Tepe, known as the world's oldest temple, in Sanliurfa, Turkey, on Feb. 17. Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mustafa Hatipoglu/Anadolu via Getty Images GOBEKLI TEPE, Turkey — Tour guide Sabahattin Alkan herds curious tourists through the scorching afternoon heat, luring them with the
Gara, a Siberian tiger, cares for her newborn cubs at the Aalborg Zoo in Denmark in 2008. Henning Bagger/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Henning Bagger/AFP via Getty Images A European zoo stirred up intrigue and controversy after a social media post asking for surplus pets to be donated to feed captive animals
A broken transformer in Badagry, Nigeria that hasn't worked for over 5 years. Local residents say electricity officials have never been sent to repair it. Emmanuel Akinwotu/NPR hide caption toggle caption Emmanuel Akinwotu/NPR In Africa’s most populous country more than a third of residents have no access to electricity. Even those connected to the nation’s crumbling power grid
Iryna Schestova, 50, and her daughter, Liia Kazakova, 26, sit in the living room of a friend's home in Horenychi, a suburb of Kyiv, Ukraine. Kazakova is staying in the home instead of with her mother because she can't sleep at night listening to the sounds of war from her mother's apartment in central Kyiv.
Demonstrators protest against the bill proposed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday. Efrem Lukatsky/AP hide caption toggle caption Efrem Lukatsky/AP KYIV, Ukraine — After a public outcry and pressure from the European Union, a new law is now in force in Ukraine restoring the independence of state agencies investigating corruption. World Activists in
Enlarge this image Workers harvest coffee on a farm in Braganca Paulista, Brazil, April 4, 2025. Andre Penner/AP hide caption toggle caption Andre Penner/AP Workers harvest coffee on a farm in Braganca Paulista, Brazil, April 4, 2025. Andre Penner/AP The threat of 50% US tariffs on some goods have Brazilian growers and producers are on
Druze wait near the border fence in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights village of Majdal Shams, as Syrian Druze who'd crossed over the day before return to Syria following days of sectarian bloodshed in the southern Syrian region of Sweida, July 17. JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption JALAA MAREY/AFP via Getty Images
Jackie Lay/NPR Far-Flung Postcards is a weekly series in which NPR's international team shares moments from their lives and work around the world. In April, I visited the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, a few months after it was recaptured by the Sudanese army. After more than two years of civil war, the scale of obliteration was
