NPR’s Adrian Florido speaks with NBA player Patty Mills, point guard now of the Brooklyn Nets, about his work in organizing the Indigenous Basketball Association in his native Australia.

The United Nations has a difficult balancing act in Afghanistan. The humanitarian needs are great. But the Taliban are no longer allowing female Afghan aid workers to deliver assistance.

Banned in Pakistan, the film Joyland chronicles a young married man’s travails after he gets a job as a backup dancer in a revue featuring a trans performer.

Zhane Chilcott was 13 years old and had reportedly been moved between 18 foster homes before he took his own life.

A giant baked bean made using two tins of Heinz beans is “what the people need”, its creators have said, after going viral on social media. Tom Snell, 25, and Dylan Hartigan, 27, both creatives in advertising, spent a Sunday afternoon creating a mammot…

Pope Francis has washed and dried the feet of 12 residents of a Rome juvenile prison in a Holy Thursday rite symbolizing humility. (April 6)