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Women who are subject to unwanted attention and harassment on the beaches of southern France are experimenting with an app that summons police. (Story aired on All Things Considered on Aug. 31, 2023.)

NPR's A Martinez talks with Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass about a rash of smash-and-grab robberies in Southern California.

For the Halabis — reportedly the last Jews left in the city — the knock on the door was terrifying. But it wasn't Assad's regime, or the Islamic State. It was a private businessman's rescue mission.

Federal and state lawmakers have proposed a flurry of bills to restrict foreign ownership of agricultural land in the U.S. That after a Chinese "spy balloon" floated across the U.S. earlier this year.

During World War II, the Nazis stripped Jews of their belongings, including many pieces of art. Some of these were returned after long legal battles. Author Anne Marie O'Connor's new book, The Lady in Gold, tells the story behind one of the most famous cases, Gustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer.

Author Sari Wilson's new novel follows a young dancer in New York City in the 1970s, and a grown professor of dance years later — both of whom find their lives upended by dangerous relationships.

Saturday's march, the largest in the U.K. since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, was overwhelmingly peaceful. London police say they arrested around 100 far-right counterprotesters.

An Indian textile millionaire attempts to "touch the face of God" by flying a hot-air balloon to the edge of space... 70,000 feet. Vijaypat Singhania, now 67, has set previous records in other aircraft. Philip Reeves reports.

As the blame continues on who's responsible for a deadly attack on a Gaza City hospital. President Biden has weighed in. He says he believes it was an errant missile by a Palestinian faction.

For three weeks, a human column has been weaving its way across the landscape toward New Delhi. Led by a posse of chanting Buddhist monks, tens of thousands of India's poorest people are on their way to the Indian parliament, where they'll demand compensation for lost land.