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Example #3: This book, from Jamaica, looks at the science of climate change.

Grading The World's Textbooks: Making Progress But Needs Improvement

A UNESCO survey shows that school books often minimize, brush aside or misrepresent important issues, from gender equality to environmental protection.

Demonstrators protest against the deportation of refugees back to Afghanistan at the Frankfurt, Germany, airport Wednesday night.

Germany Deports First Group Of Afghan Asylum Seekers

The 34 Afghan asylum seekers departed Frankfurt Airport for Kabul on a chartered flight. The deportations have been criticized for potentially putting the migrants back into harm's way.

This undated photo shows the Jehovah's Witnesses' headquarters in Brooklyn, New York.

How Jehovah’s Witnesses Leaders Hide Child Abuse Secrets At All Costs

One Jehovah’s Witness sexually abused at least seven children in San Diego congregations in the ’80s and ’90s. Leaders knew but did not report him to law enforcement, according to testimony by congregation elders. Instead, they promoted him.

Behind the fake news crisis lies what's perhaps a larger problem: Many Americans doubt what governments or authorities tell them, and also dismiss real news from traditional sources. But we've got tips to sharpen our skepticism.

A Finder's Guide To Facts

The deluge of fake news suggests we live in a "post-truth" era. But NPR's Steve Inskeep says it would be better to call this a "post-trust" era. Here are his tips to sniff out the suspect sources.

This month, KUTX's Jack Anderson picked hip-hop project Third Root's song "Soul Force."

Heavy Rotation: 10 Songs Public Radio Can't Stop Playing

A panel of public-radio DJs recommends music for the end of your 2016 — including songs from Third Root, Regina Spektor and Sylvan Esso.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, pictured during a 2014 visit to Haiti to inaugurate a sanitation campaign. On Thursday, he issued an apology that Haitians have been demanding for six years.

U.N. Finally Apologizes For Cholera In Haiti ... But Omits One Point

On Thursday, Ban Ki-moon apologized to the Haitian people: "We simply did not do enough with regard to the cholera outbreak."

Massumeh Farhad points to one of the Qurans in the exhibition. As curator, she flipped through all of the books on display. "Every page is absolutely breathtaking," she says.

Quran Exhibition Shines A Light On The Holy Books' Dedicated Artists

The Smithsonian show isn't about the words of the Quran so much as the people who laboriously copied it, letter by letter. When they made a mistake, they fixed it with flourish — and sometimes gold.

Child marriage is not always mentioned in textbooks of countries where it remains a fact of life, like Kenya (above).

Should Child Marriage Be Talked About In The Classroom?

When the issue is absent from textbooks, says one researcher, it's also absent from classroom discussion.

Members of Women of the Wall, which lobbies for women to be allowed to sing and pray aloud at the Western Wall, march through the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. The group organizes monthly marches and are often heckled by ultra-Orthodox men.

Women's Rights Become A Battleground For Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Jews

Some women in Israel's ultra-Orthodox community are pressing for greater rights in confrontations playing out at places including a radio station and the most important site for Jewish prayer.

Clinton and Trump wrap up their presidential campaigns with two-minute ads appealing for votes the day before Americans head to the polls.

In Closing Ads, Trump Goes Dark While Clinton Goes Cozy

Donald Trump's and Hillary Clinton's final appeals to voters display a stark difference in how each candidate ran for president.

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