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Around the globe, people marked Barack Obama's election victory with raucous celebrations. Western Kenya, the ancestral homeland of the Obama family, was no exception. Obama's father was from Kogelo, Kenya, and villagers there are planning a huge feast to celebrate.

Some 40,000 people gathered on the streets of Oslo on Thursday to sing a Norwegian nursery rhyme that mass murderer Anders Breivik says he hates. Breivik is on trial in connection with his slaughter of 77 people last summer in Norway.

With the 1960s pop girl group, Weiss found fame as a 15-year-old. She died on Friday, according to her husband.

Dr. Prabhjot Singh lives and works in Harlem, a neighborhood plagued by chronic disease. He thinks an African model of health care can help — training people in the community to be health educators.

The government vowed to rebuild the city after the 2017 conflict with militants linked to ISIS. But more than 100,000 people are still in displacement camps, waiting for reconstruction.

Public health workers are going church to church and house to house in the state's secluded valleys to dispel COVID myths, ease isolation, bring aid, and convince wary residents to get vaccinated.

An artist and a brain scientist are working together to reduce the stigma surrounding addiction. Both are determined to change society's view of addiction.

More than 3 million Ukrainians have fled their homes since the Russian invasion began. The U.S. has pledged to help — but Ukrainian-Americans are finding it difficult to bring their relatives over.

In Nigeria, distraught families want to talk to the nation's president to press him to help find the 110 girls abducted from their school in the northeast three weeks ago.

Since 2004, brother and sister Luz and Jorge Muñoz have fed day laborers in Queens, N.Y. Since he was young, Jorge has looked for ways of putting food in the hands of those who needed it.