Health worker Jackie Carnegie delivers a rubella vaccine in Colorado in 1972. Ira Gay Sealy/Denver Post via Getty Images hide caption
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It's proving difficult for President Obama to win over Democrats on trade so far. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
Amar Baramu carried his 70-year-old mother on his back for five hours, then rode with her on a bus for 12 more, to get her to a hospital for the head wound she suffered during the earthquake. Julie McCarthy/NPR hide caption
He Carried His Mom On His Back For 5 Hours En Route To Medical Care
Former Guantanamo prison inmates walk between their tents and the U.S. Embassy in Montevideo, Uruguay's capital, where four former prisoners are protesting what they say is an inadequate deal in exchange for permanent asylum. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
September 13, 2009 photo of Andreas Lubitz, who is believed to have deliberately crashed Germanwings Flight 9525 into a mountain in southern France on March 24, 2015, killing all 150 people on board. Getty Images/Getty Images hide caption
Returning To Vietnam Years After Fleeing War, A Man Finally Feels At Home
Algy Garrod's rapeseed in bloom in Norfolk, England. Anne Bramley for NPR hide caption
This pair of Charlie Hebdo covers from 2012 pokes fun at the magazine's "irresponsible" approach to humor. AFP/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
People gather around a helicopter reportedly belonging to Syrian government forces that crashed in March in Jabal al-Zawiya in northwest Syria. Islamist rebels captured four crew members, while a fifth was killed, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Opposition fighters have made a number of advances in recent weeks. Ghaith Omran/AFP/Getty Images hide caption
A surgeon and nurse anesthetist a baby by emergency cesarean section at a hospital in Rwanda. Amber Lucero Dwyer/Courtesy Lifebox Foundation hide caption
French caricaturist Luz, seen on Jan. 15, says drawing Islam's Prophet Muhammad no longer interests him. Ian Langsdon/EPA /Landov hide caption
The General (right) and his opponent, Dragon, lock horns during this year's Cheongdo Bullfighting Festival in South Korea. There are no matadors and no swords in the South Korean version. The bulls fight until one turns and runs. Marius Stankiewicz for NPR hide caption
Malala Yousafzai, who was 15 when she was shot, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize last year. Hakon Mosvold Larsen/EPA/Landov hide caption