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A woman leaves the Bay of Bengal coast with her children in the Ganjam district of Odisha, India.

'Monstrous' Cyclone Barrels Toward India's East Coast

The lives and livelihood of millions are in its path. Cyclone Phailin currently has winds of around 160 mph, equal to a category 5 hurricane.

In a news conference Thursday on Capitol Hill, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio warned President Obama not to go it alone on immigration reform.

Boehner Says Rolling Back Obamacare Is GOP Priority

In his first news conference since an overwhelming victory for Republicans on Tuesday, the House speaker also said approval of the Keystone XL pipeline is a key item on the GOP agenda.

A relative weeps during the handover of the body of Hayati Lutfiah Hamid, one of the victims of AirAsia Flight 8501, to her family at the police hospital in Surabaya, East Java, Indonesia, on Thursday.

Family Buries First Victim Of AirAsia Plane Crash

Authorities returned the remains of Hayati Lutfiah Hamid to her family in a ceremony in Indonesia. It's the first of many more to come.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius waves to members of Parliament on Wednesday during questions to the government session at the National Assembly in Paris.

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius Is Stepping Down

Fabius presided over December's landmark climate agreement and helped to negotiate the nuclear deal with Iran.

French gendarmes patrol outside the Printemps department store in Paris, a city that's still on edge and on a security alert after last week's deadly terrorist attack.

In Paris, Security Checks For Shoppers — And Children

On a famous shopping street in Paris, children climb up to gaze at Christmas displays in shop windows. But inside these venerable stores, security is a top concern.

Russian Athletes Banned From Rio Olympics

The international track and field body, the IAAF, has upheld the ban on Russian athletes, ruling they should be barred from the Rio Olympics because of far-reaching doping conspiracy.

Chefs prepare food at Mexico's Dinner With Enrique Olvera And Jordi Roca during Food Network & Cooking Channel New York City Wine & Food Festival presented By FOOD & WINE at Cosme NYC on October 15, 2015 in New York City. Cosme is one of six U.S. honorees on the 2021 list of the world's 50 best restaurants.

A handful of the world's newly crowned 50 best restaurants are in the U.S.

This year's list of the 50 best restaurants in the world includes six American eateries, all in either New York or California.

The Metropolitan Museum on Mar. 13, the first day it was closed due to the coronavirus.

N.Y.'s Met Museum Projects $150 Million Shortfall, Lays Off 81 Employees

One of New York City's biggest tourist attractions and the U.S.' largest art museum says that it has revised its budget shortfall projection — some $50 million greater than just a month ago.

Breathless Work in the High Himalayas

For the latest NPR/National Geographic Radio Expedition report, Elizabeth Arnold begins a journey to China's eastern Himalayas, near the border with Tibet, to profile a team of scientists studying the link between global warming and disappearing plant life high in the mountains.

Don Knotts, left, and Andy Griffith pose in character in a 1965 publicity still for their much-loved TV series.

Don Knotts, TV's 'Barney Fife,' Dies at 81

Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Hills.

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