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First lady Michelle Obama took her Chinese counterpart, Peng Liyuan, to visit the pandas at the National Zoo — and revealed the baby panda's new name: Bei Bei.

United Nations member states pledged Friday to eliminate extreme poverty by 2030. That's defined as surviving on $1.25 per person per day. What is life really like on that amount?

Each year American consumers buy and then never eat 1.3 billion pounds of fish and shellfish, according to a new study. Fishermen, retailers and processors waste a lot of fish, too.

NPR's Sylvia Poggioli has been traveling with the pope all week — averaging three hours of sleep per night. Here's what it's like being among the 76 journalists following Pope Francis.

Prosecutors in Sicily are tracking the smuggling networks sending migrants into Italy. One of these prosecutors, Gery Ferarra, says smugglers are organized criminal groups much like the Cosa Nostra.

The strain of coping with asylum seekers on their joint border is causing Serbia and Croatia to invoke retaliatory frontier restrictions — and recall their bitter political history.

This week over 700 people died in a stampede at the Hajj, inciting criticism from Iran of Saudi Arabia. NPR's Scott Simon speaks to analyst Gary Sick about what the incident means for the region.

A new arts district is taking shape in what was once a booming industrial center. Drab warehouses are canvases for street artists in Hialeah, an affordable alternative to Miami's Wynwood art scene.

The news follows an announcement on Friday that the German automaker, rocked by an emissions testing scandal, had appointed a new CEO.

In remarks delivered at the Festival of Families, Pope Francis emphasized the importance of caring for grandparents and children. Earlier in the day, he spoke at Independence Hall.