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Indian sand artist Sudersan Pattnaik touches up his sculpture for World No Tobacco Day at Golden Sea Beach in Puri, India.

What's Most Likely To Kill You? Hint: Probably Not An Epidemic

Noncommunicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and heart disease are now the biggest killers on Earth. They account for 68 percent of deaths — and have an even greater impact in the developing world.

Climate activists in Quezon City, Philippines, light candles and hold LED-illuminated banners in December of last year to commemorates five years since the Paris Agreement and to call for an end to the killing of environmental defenders.

It Was The Deadliest Year Ever For Land And Environmental Activists

Global Witness, an international human rights group, says a record 227 grassroots environmental activists were killed in 2020. More than half were killed in Colombia, Mexico and the Philippines.

U.N. Eases Ban on Elephant Ivory Trade

Delegates to a United Nations wildlife conference have agreed to ease a 13-year-old global ban on ivory trading. The decision is a victory for southern African nations, but conservationists see it as a defeat for elephants. NPR's John Nielsen reports.

U.S. Investors Watch Nervously As Retirement Funds Drop

The stock market lately is giving indigestion to some people who told their financial advisers that they're ok with moderate risk. Others are just trying to tune out the roller-coaster market news.

Pat Garrett's Colt single action army revolver was used to gun down Billy the Kid.

The Gun That Killed Billy The Kid Is Going Up For Auction. Starting Bid: $2 Million

An iconic piece of the Wild West goes up for sale: the gun that killed Billy the Kid.

Ethiopian army units patrol the streets of Mekele in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region in March after the city was captured during an operation against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

The U.N. says all sides in Ethiopia's Tigray conflict may have committed war crimes

An investigation released a year after the start of violence over the breakaway region of Ethiopia has compiled evidence of summary executions, torture and rape.

The cleared lot where the collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building once stood in Surfside, Fla. A total of 98 people died when the building partially collapsed on June 24, 2021.

A Surfside condo collapse grand jury report calls for immediate reforms

The report comes six months after the horrific collapse of the Champlain Towers South condo building that killed 98 people, and warns of future catastrophes if changes are not immediately instituted.

Chinese torchbearers and Olympic athletes Dinigeer Yilamujian, left, and Zhao Jiawen place the Olympic flame into its snowflake cauldron during the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games, at the National Stadium, known as the Bird's Nest, in Beijing.

The Beijing Winter Olympics' cauldron lighting made a political statement

The cauldron is a snowflake, with a much smaller flame than usual. It was lit by two Olympians, including an athlete from the Xinjiang autonomous region, home to the Uyghur minority.

California Plans on Cutting Soot Emissions from Ports

The California Air Resources Board announces its plan to reduce air pollution at the state's ports. Nationwide, ports account for a large and growing proportion of a dangerous kind of air pollution: soot from diesel engines. California is leading the way in trying to reduce the problem.

Mayoral Control and School Districts

If Mayor Villaraigosa ends up running the Los Angeles public school system, he can draw on the experiences of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley and New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Claudio Sanchez reports on what has happened in the Chicago and New York City school districts under mayoral control.

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