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Disclaimer: These are not the goats that went on the lam in Boise. But they sure look just as sassy.

Kids These Days: Unruly Goats Graze Hell Across Suburban Boise

More than 100 professional ungulates overran an Idaho neighborhood Friday, briefly tasting freedom — and a whole lot of manicured lawns while they were at it.

Researchers have found that remains buried at Stonehenge thousands of years ago may have originated in the Preseli Mountains.

Builders Of Stonehenge May Have Been From Wales, More Than 100 Miles Away

An analysis of bones excavated from the ancient site reveals that some of the people buried there were from the Preseli Mountains in Wales.

Limericks

Bill Kurtis reads three news-related limericks: Terminally Vested, Breaking Geometry News and Hellman's Super Fudge Chunk.

The town of Central do Maranhão, in northeast Brazil's sugar cane belt, is one of the country's poorest. These rice fields line one of the town's long, narrow dirt streets.

Brazilians Turn To Evangelical Church In Rural Town Wracked By Drugs And Poverty

"Churches are taking over the leadership role which was supposed to be in the hands of the political powers," says a Catholic youth group member in the Brazilian town of Central do Maranhão.

Bryn Sobott of the FREO2 Foundation presents his group's solution to pneumonia treatment — an oxygen delivery machine that can operate using the energy generated by running water — at a pitch competition organized by Saving Lives At Birth: A Grand Challenge for Development in Washington, D.C.

It's 'Shark Tank' For Global Health Inventions

Projects helping to improve medical care for moms and babies in poor countries want to scale up. But first they need to master the art of the pitch.

People move past a flooded road in the southern Indian state of Kerala, where monsoon rains have destroyed roads and left hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

Monsoon Floods Have Killed More Than 320 People In Kerala, India

The heavy rainfall has resulted in deadly landslides and flash floods, leaving hundreds of thousands of people homeless.

Texas officials are requiring that people who comment at Medicaid meetings on pharmaceuticals disclose more details about their ties to industry.

Texas Tightens Disclosure Rules Following Medicaid Investigation

Officials in Texas are responding to the findings of an investigation by NPR and the Center for Public Integrity into drugmakers' influence over medication choices for Medicaid patients.

A member of the Myanmar security forces stands guard near a military transport helicopter in Rakhine state last September, about a month into the bloody crackdown on the country's Rohingya Muslim population.

'There Must Be Justice': U.S. Sanctions Myanmar Soldiers For Rohingya Killings

The sanctions target four mid-level commanders and two units — but they failed to satisfy senators and activists alike, who say the U.S. has a ways to go to hold Myanmar accountable for its crimes.

One Guatemalan Family's Journey To Be Reunited After Being Separated At U.S. Border

Under court order, the government has been working to reunify all children separated from parents at the border, but the biggest challenge has been finding parents already deported.

Yo-Yo Ma plays selections from Bach's Cello Suites at NPR Music's Tiny Desk.

Yo-Yo Ma, A Life Led With Bach

If the celebrated cellist could soundtrack his life, the music would be J.S. Bach's six Cello Suites. Yo-Yo Ma explains why they mean the world to him while he played the music at the NPR offices.

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