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After a classmate was killed in his hometown of Bakhmut — the longest and bloodiest battle in Russia's war on Ukraine — a rescue worker volunteered to evacuate people from the front lines.

A former Afghan warlord was sentenced in a London court this week to 20 years in prison for torture and hostage-taking in Afghanistan. The trial coincided with appeals from human rights groups for many more of Afghanistan's warlords -- including those now in government -- to be called to account for crimes committed during that period. There are many such men who are still fighting.

The New York Film Festival wraps up this weekend. It's a venue for some of the season's big releases — as well as some offbeat, foreign and indie movies.

Vauhini Vara's debut novel “The Immortal King Rao” is a Pulitzer-Prize finalist this year.

Kristal Brent Zook's white father abandoned her Black mother when Zook was an infant, and she writes about her struggles with identity and abandonment.

Stewart has just released a memoir, Making It So. He talks to NPR's Rachel Martin about his life on screen and stage, and why he considers his years on Star Trek as a kind of spiritual calling.

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Palestinian Ambassador to the U.N. Riyad Mansour about the crisis in Gaza. Israel's prime minister has rejected international calls for a humanitarian ceasefire.

NPR's Michel Martin talks to Donald Bogle about his book Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed. She was a pioneering star of stage and screen in the 1940s, at a time when Hollywood was loathe to show either.

Some people have been sleeping on the sidewalks of London determined to be at the front of the crowd outside Westminster Abbey to see William and Kate get married there Friday.

Speaking out in Karachi can cost you your life. But there is a patch of sidewalk where Pakistanis feel they can safely raise their voices. (This piece first aired on May 5, 2015 on Morning Edition.)