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We asked leaders in global health and development to share their wishes for the new year. Here's what they hope will happen in the year ahead. And readers, we'd like to hear from you.

Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land animal in the town of Livingstone, Zambia.

Record low winter snows mean insufficient water in the Colorado River. Here's how a city that's first in line to be cut off is handling it.

The International Commission on Missing Persons in The Hague has identified remains of 18,000 people in the Balkans. Its new challenge: to I.D. the remains of migrants who died trying to reach Europe.

As we enter 2020, our far-flung journalists take a look back at the past year of reporting and recommend some of their favorite online stories.

Men detained en route to Europe in Libya tell NPR that guards held them for ransom and sold them off to other detention centers and ultimately into forced labor.

We checked in with authors, poets and great literary minds to see what books they think everyone should read this holiday season.

African-American women are more likely to lose a baby in the first year of life than women of any other race. Scientists think that stress from racism makes their bodies and babies more vulnerable.

Biden was asked whether the U.S. would defend Taiwan militarily if China invades. Epidemiologists investigate suspected U.S. cases of monkeypox. Long lines form as refugees try to return to Ukraine.