The Impact of Fewer Babies Being Born in Countries Around the Globe

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. Years ago, when I lived in Delhi, a madari — a monkey handler — and his two performing monkeys used to come to my neighborhood on a bicycle. I loved to see

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In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike that hit the Syrian Defense Ministry headquarters in Damascus, Syria, on Wednesday. SANA/AP hide caption toggle caption SANA/AP TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel launched airstrikes into Syria's capital of Damascus on Wednesday, hitting the Defense Ministry headquarters and

A Bhutanese and American flag are displayed on the desk of a business in Harrisburg, PA on April 16. This is not the first time that Nepali-speaking Bhutanese refugees have faced questions about citizenship and belonging. Some 30 years ago, they were branded as illegal immigrants by the Bhutanese government and were expelled or forced