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Pediatric cancer survival rates are a crowning medical achievement. But the impact of missing school is a less-discussed side effect children then face.

Their job is to keep the peace amid a worsening and at times deadly conflict between humans and the world's largest land animal in the town of Livingstone, Zambia.

A former police officer died in an apparent suicide just before going to trial for sexual assault. His case was dismissed, and his alleged victims say they are infuriated.

President-elect Donald Trump travels to Paris for the opening of Notre Dame and for some soft diplomacy, meanwhile the future of his pick for secretary of defense remains in question.

Pediatricians historically have not had much instruction on how to deal with childhood obesity. But now medical schools are starting to train their students on leading with empathy.

Listener Ernie Thurston of Asheville, N.C., plays the puzzle with NPR Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Weekend Edition host Ayesha Rascoe.

In a lightning campaign, Syrian rebels seize the capital and end half a century of brutal Assad family rule.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to U.S. college student Juliette Sartori about how her an idea for a new club, Dinner with a Stranger, became a huge hit at the University of Glasgow in Scotland.

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks to Qutaiba Idlbi of the Atlantic Council about the fall of the Assad regime in Syria, considered one of the fiercest dictatorships in the world.

Nick Frost on his newest horror comedy and what makes the slasher funny.