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The Assad regime's use of "excessive force to crush peaceful protests" has led to a "devastatingly remorseless toll of human lives," U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay says.

The United Nations says Iran has ignored the Security Council's call to suspend all nuclear fuel enrichment. Instead, the U.N. says Iran has accelerated its program. Bush administration officials say it is now time for the Security Council to act against Iran.

NPR's Audie Cornish talks with UNHCR's Maria Rubi, who is working with the migrant caravan and the Mexican authorities to help take care of people's immediate needs and register for refugee status.

In 2010, months after Haiti's devastating quake, a catastrophic cholera epidemic began. Scientists traced the outbreak to U.N. peacekeepers. Nearly six years later, the U.N. has acknowledged a role.

The outage was the first nationwide shutdown since the Taliban returned to power in August 2021 and was part of their professed crackdown on immorality.

The state isn't the biggest producer of the pink-orange fruit. So why are Georgia peaches so iconic? The answer has a lot to do with slavery — its end and a need for the South to rebrand itself.

As director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice had broad sway on the administration's approach to health care, immigration and racial inequality.

Nothing says "Happy Holidays" better than 3-D goggles. Or perhaps an inflatable wetsuit for big-wave surfing. Those are two of the top gadgets of the year, according to Popular Science magazine's "100 Best Innovations" issue. To tell us a little more about some of those innovations, Editor-In-Chief Mark Jannot joins host Scott Simon.

Tennis's top-ranked Swiatek beat Gauff 6-1, 6-3 in the final at Roland Garros. Swiatek's unbeaten run of 35 matches equals one by Venus Williams in 2000 as the longest this century.

Members of the U.N. Security Council consider U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's report detailing evidence against Iraq. In Brussels, Belgium, NATO ambassadors will meet to discuss the U.S. case for military action against Iraq. Hear NPR's Vicky O'Hara and Guy Raz.