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After ISIS took their villages in Iraq, hundreds of members of the religious minority survived on wild plants and tomato paste through a bitterly cold winter on a mountain they consider miraculous.

The Paris attacks have led some countries to question the European Union's open border policies. With the current system, passports and visas aren't needed within EU countries.

The win by Mauricio Macri ends the 12-year rule of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner's Peronist Party. Macri, the former mayor of Buenos Aires, promised to roll back some of Kirchner's policies.

In one of the biggest health care mergers ever, Pfizer says it has clinched a deal to buy Allergan for over $150 billion. Pfizer says it plans to move its headquarters to Dublin to avoid U.S. taxes.

Belgian police asked citizens not to tweet information about their movements. Perhaps not surprisingly, Twitter responded with pictures of cats.

Typically, if a vaccine is not kept cold, it doesn't work. And that's a big problem in hot spots. A new cooler seems to do the trick — without electricity!

In his new book, Sam Phillips, music writer Peter Guralnick profiles the founder of the Sun Records label. Guralnick says Phillips rejected perfection in favor of spontaneity and individuality.

The death penalty in the U.S. is under scrutiny after a series of botched executions. Some death row lawyers and activists say the repeated delays are torture for prisoners like Richard Glossip.

Analysts say the belt could belong to the eighth alleged attacker, Salah Abdeslam, whom police are trying to find.

We asked NPR listeners what they'd like to know about women's health in midlife. Hundreds of you had questions on topics from hormones to chin hairs. Two doctors are giving us the answers.