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Paris' Velib bike-sharing system became a huge success and a point of pride for the city until this year when it changed operators and almost collapsed.

At a panel discussion attended by Vladimir Putin, a man got up to thank the Russian president for the ban on EU food imports, which he credited for helping his local cheese business to flourish.

The ancient site of Babylon in Iraq has undergone a lot of damage in recent years but archeologists hope it will still get special status.

The family of a man shot and killed by police at a mall outside Birmingham, Ala., Thursday night is calling for transparency as police look into what happened.

The caucus vote is just the first of two key elections Pelosi needs to win. The full House formally votes on its next speaker on Jan. 3, the first day of Congress' next session.

Rep. Kurt Schrader, D-Oregon, has long questioned Nancy Pelosi's leadership of Democrats in the House.

It's the strongest indication to date that CPUC President Michael Picker and other regulators may be open to reconsidering the very existence of the publicly traded utility giant.

The effort involves tech leaders such as Alibaba, Baidu, eBay, Facebook and Instagram who have pledged to try to reduce trafficking across their platforms by 80 percent by 2020.

Carter was one of the last of the Tuskegee Airmen, the famous unit that overcame both internal challenges and enemy fire to serve in World War II.

NPR's Michele Kelemen, who covers the State Department, talks to Rachel Martin about events leading up to the announcement.