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Ebola has claimed more than 700 lives in the deadliest outbreak of the disease on record. Eric Westervelt talks to a nurse with Doctors Without Borders on the difficulties of battling the disease.

Russian officials report thousands of new COVID-19 cases and hundreds of deaths everyday, but that's not reflected on the streets of Moscow, where people act as if the pandemic is over.

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden visited Surfside, Fla. to meet with rescue crews searching for people in the building collapse. They also spent several hours speaking with families.

Last month, a confrontation between the police and striking platinum miners turned deadly when police killed 34 people. The incident, and the fallout, have sent shock waves across South Africa, with people saying that the violence harks back to the bad old days of apartheid, repression and white minority rule.

As cinemas struggle with the ascent of streaming and concurrent digital releases, movie studios gathered in Las Vegas to show-off their splashiest fall films and encourage movie theater owners.

A board in California has recommended parole for Sirhan Sirhan, who was convicted of killing Sen. Robert F. Kennedy at a Los Angeles hotel in 1968. The governor will decide whether he is freed.

On Sept 15, 2001, a causeway bridge leading from Port Isabel to South Padre Island collapsed and killed eight people. Twenty years later, survivors and rescuers can talk about it for the first time.

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with Tallahassee Democrat reporter Karl Etters about Friday's shooting at a yoga studio in Tallahassee, Fla., that left two dead and five others wounded.

A new epidemiological study suggests the death toll in India from COVID-19 could be as much as 10 times the official figure — making the count closer to 5 million people.

The turnaround came in the wake of a fifth wave of infections that peaked in August. Japan is trying to figure out why its COVID-19 case numbers and fatalities have plummeted.