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Two young Afghan women, Shopirai Otmonkhel and Zahra Karimi Nooristani, hold the Afghan flag on an unnamed peak in Panjshir. They were among 13 Afghan girls and young women who took part in a 16-day climbing expedition in northeast Afghanistan.

For Young Afghan Women, Scaling Mountain Peaks Brings Highs And Lows

Months of training culminated with reaching the summit of a 16,500-foot peak, which they named. But there were frustrations and squabbles along the away, and uncertainties as they returned to Kabul.

Sarah Johnson makes a call during a preseason football game. Our story about Johnson becoming the NFL's first full-time female game official was one of the Two-Way's most-shared posts of 2015.

Most-Shared In 2015: Stories That Grabbed The Two-Way's Readers

The metric of sheer page views only goes so far. We wanted to see which posts resonated enough with people that a high rate of readers shared them with friends and followers.

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: New York Philharmonic New Year's Eve: La Vie Parisienne

Airs Thursday, Dec. 31, 2015 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV

The New York Philharmonic on stage, performing the music of Frank Sinatra, with Music Director Alan Gilbert.

LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER: Sinatra: Voice For A Century

Airs Friday, Dec. 18, 2015 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

A North County Transit District Coaster train shown in this undated photo.

NCTD Releases Part Of Leadership Assessment After Court Ruling

The North County Transit District spent more than $100,000 to fight a public records act request, eventually producing a partial summary of a leadership competency assessment.

Nurse Patsy Mount (Emerald Fennell), Nurse Barbara Gilbert (Charlotte Ritchie) and Nurse Trixie Franklin (Helen George) celebrate the holidays.

Call The Midwife Holiday Special 2015

Airs Friday, Dec. 25, 2015 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV

South America has a tradition of offering a haven to refugees, including my grandfather, Miguel Cordoba, pictured here in Argentina, where he began practicing medicine in the 1930s. His family had fled pogroms in the Ukraine in the late 1800s.

Refugees: That Time Everyone Said 'No' And Bolivia Said 'Yes'

Observers draw a parallel between anti-refugee sentiments now and during WWII. Back then, many doors where closed to those fleeing Nazism. Bolivia was a notable exception.

Marcela Delatone, an environmental services worker at Palomar Health, gets the influenza vaccination at Palomar Health in this undated photo.

Flu Triggers ‘Vaccinate Or Mask’ Rules At Hospitals

In hospital settings, roughly 9 percent of health care workers declined the vaccine during the flu season that ended March 31, according to an inewsource survey.

Burkina Faso's interim president, Michel Kafando, said he has resumed his duties a week after being overthrown in a coup by the west African country's presidential guard.

1 Week After Coup, Burkina Faso's Interim President Back In Power

After a tumutuous week that saw coup leader Gen. Gilbert Diendere overthrow the interim president and prime minister, Diendere has apologized and the two leaders have officially returned to power.

Burkina Faso coup leader Gen. Gilbert Diendere waits for Senegal President Macky Sall to arrive at the airport for talks in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, last week.

Burkina Faso Leader Apologizes To Nation For Seizing Power In A Coup

Gen. Gilbert Diendere led the presidential guard in a coup last week, jailing the prime minister. Diendere released the prime minister Monday.

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