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To reduce unnecessary medical interventions in childbirth and respect the woman's wishes, the World Health Organization sets standards in a report.

Gil Kerlikowske, head of Customs and Border Protection, tells NPR that he is reviewing scores of incidents. "We need to be better at admitting when we're wrong or where we've made a mistake," he says.

She truly embraced the suffering that was often ignored. But that's not all there is to Kolkata.

Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

Misha Smetana lives in Kyiv, and has stayed there throughout Russian attacks on Ukraine. He tells NPR's Scott Detrow what that's been like, and about the communities forming between people who stayed.

On Christmas Eve, 1945, the Sodder family of Fayetteville, W.V., lost five children in a fire. Strange events that night and afterward fueled speculation, which continues to this day, that the children may have been kidnapped or murdered.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Columbia Global Senior Advisor Kian Tajbakhsh about the protests in Iran, which have continued for more than 100 days.

Besides Oppenheimer doing well, a tight race between Lily Gladstone and Emma Stone for best actress went to Stone and the Billie Eilish Barbie song beat out the Ryan Gosling Barbie song.

Nearly one million Syrians who fled to Germany a decade ago look at events back home with new hope.

NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Dr. Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, about the call from some U.S. officials to begin ending social distancing policies.