The Dongguan Great Mosque in Xining, China, photographed in 2018. Its main green dome and minaret domes have since been removed.Zhang Peng | LightRocket via Getty Images XINING, China — The Dongguan Mosque has adopted some very different looks in its nearly 700 years in China's northwestern city of Xining. ...

Men crowd over a cricket fight in Beijing in September. Competitive cricket fights are believed to have been held for more than 1,000 years in China.Yufan Lu for NPR BEIJING — The window shades are drawn, the air's filled with cigarette smoke and tension. About three dozen people, mostly men, ...

Dame Sandra Mason is seen here after she was made a Dame Grand Cross of the Order of St. Michael and St. George during a ceremony at Buckingham Palace in 2018 in London. Before her election as the first president of Barbados, she served as the governor general. She will ...

Children joining the bicibús in the Eixample district of Barcelona, Spain, make their way to school on a recent Friday morning. The community is hoping to build a school-friendly bike lane for a safer commute for kids.Mireia Boix | Bicibús Eixample The Friday commute to school looks a little different ...

Enes Kanter of the Boston Celtics has not shied from political activism.Mike Ehrmann | Getty Images On Wednesday afternoon, Enes Kanter, a center for the Boston Celtics, traded his uniform for a t-shirt bearing an image of the Dalai Lama, and read a pro-Tibet message that has prompted Chinese broadcasters ...

Drone operators were hoping to find dogs that needed to be rescued from a lava zone on the island of La Palma, Spain. Instead, they found a spray-painted banner that said "The dogs are fine" and was signed "A Team." This still image is from a video sent by the ...

Russian demonstrators hold anti-American posters outside the U.S. Embassy in 2015. From the 1960s through the 1980s, the U.S. said the Soviet Union beamed microwave signals at the U.S. Embassy in an attempt to collect intelligence.Alexander Zemlianichenko | AP In 1996, Michael Beck and a colleague at the National Security ...

China's DF-17 missile is a medium-range hypersonic weapon capable of traveling over five times the speed of sound.Mark Schiefelbein | AP It began with what appeared to be a missing rocket. In July, the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology announced the 77th launch of one of its Long March ...

In this March 30, 2017 file photo, Alexei Navalny, right, poses for the press in court in Moscow. The imprisoned Russian opposition leader was awarded the European Union's top human rights prize on Wednesday.STR | AP BRUSSELS — Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was awarded the European Union's top ...

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Boris Johnson, left, greet guests at a reception at Windsor Castle, Windsor, England, Oct. 19, 2021.Alastair Grant | AP LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II has reluctantly accepted medical advice to rest for a few days and has canceled a trip to Northern Ireland, ...