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Like the kidnapped girls, Malala Yousafzai was targeted by militant extremists for wanting an education. The activist wrote a heartrending letter to the girls on the anniversary of their abduction.

Our panelists answer questions about the week's news: It's a crime not to eat this food.

In a message to Japan's prime minister, the group said it will kill the men unless it gets $200 million — equivalent to Japan's pledge in nonmilitary aid to countries facing threats from the group.

The agency says the person who had been operating the device reported that it crashed after they lost control. The White House says the device posed no threat.

There was fear in the boxing world that this generation's two best fighters would retire before facing each other in the ring. But the Floyd Mayweather, Jr. and Manny Pacquiao fight is on for May 2.

When NPR's Alice Fordham visited Mosul in 2010, bird droppings and rain were the biggest threats to its archaeological sites. Now ISIS has destroyed artifacts that had endured for millennia.

As one song puts it, the painful disease is "a crazy mess that you can't contain." So why not sing about it? Music videos from Latin America are going viral, just like chikungunya.

President Obama declared Venezuela a national security threat. That prompted Venezuela's socialist government to warn its citizens of an impending U.S. military attack.

Health is not just about trips to the doctor, according to a poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Housing, stress and abuse are factors.

Lee Baca, who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease, gambles that he can defend himself at trial on corruption charges. Baca retired in 2014 amid allegations of abuse of inmates' civil rights.