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The Pakistani education activist, who was shot in the head in 2012 by a Taliban gunman, marked her birthday with refugees in Lebanon. She warned that the world is "failing ... Syria's children."

Eurozone leaders meeting today in Brussels moved closer to a deal with Greece. But the provisions under consideration are unlikely to sit well with Greek voters. Soraya Sarhaddi-Nelson gives NPR's Arun Rath an update from Brussels.

More than a thousand "furries" — fans in full-body animal suits or just fuzzy ears — paraded in the city for the annual Anthrocon. Locals embrace them, not least for the economic benefits they bring.

The cartoonist won a Pulitzer Prize for his work on Bloom County in 1987; two years later, he quit producing it.

If parents don't have a name teed up, hospitals often give babies temporary ones, like Babygirl. But those generic names can be dangerously confusing, especially in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Paula Kerger is president and CEO of PBS. She's been included on the Hollywood Reporters Women in Entertainment Power 100 List for the past eight years.…

Most were sentenced under drug charges. Nearly all of them would have already served their time if they were convicted of the same crime today.

The prolific author tackled difficult issues of race in novels and poetry. He used his writing to challenge assumptions about African-Americans, including civil rights hero Martin Luther King Jr.

Depending on whom you ask, Go Set a Watchman is either a recently discovered first draft of To Kill a Mockingbird — or a failed sequel. Either way, critic Maureen Corrigan calls it "kind of a mess."

After a month in Afghanistan, NPR's Rebecca Hersher visited a school to talk to the one set of voices she was missing — women, specifically teenage girls.