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You might recognize it from Game of Thrones or innumerable Instagram posts from visitors to the island. It fell during a powerful storm.

From a cholera outbreak to sanctions on a prominent gang leader, we get the latest from Haiti.

Yahoo! Answers shut down Tuesday after nearly 16 years of inquiries from the internet's curious minds. As a final send-off, NPR gets to the bottom of some of these important questions.

The Sound of Science - 'Why is gold AU?'

For a dozen years, a music festival that highlights the music of Africa has been held near Timbuktu, Mali. This year, a nationalist uprising and ongoing battles made the Festival au Desert impossible. A new recording from the most recent event helps fans continue to celebrate the music.

On the second day at a field hospital in downtown, patients line up awaiting treatment. NPR photographer John Poole documents the crowded clinic.

that foreign aid donors worry about the legislative gridlock in Haiti. Lawmakers there have yet to pass a federal budget and they refuse to embrace the downsizing and privatization of some state enterprises. The U.S. has pushed the plan for selling off state industries but many Haitians fear losing even more jobs...two-thirds of the workforce is already unemployed.

On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, A LIVE conversation at Beloit College with Wayne Au. He was this year’s Weissberg Chair in Human Rights and Social Justice at Beloit. Hear the live conversation and audience Q&A!

Cholera was introduced into Haiti 18 months ago. So far, more than a half-million people have gotten sick and 7,000 have died. Public health authorities say the disease will linger for a long time because Haiti has the worst sanitation in the Western Hemisphere.

There aren't many pharmacies in Haiti. But there are vendors who walk the streets with towers of pills — including some that may be fake or past their expiration date.