To preserve the spirit of the Games, Paris' mayor has proposed making the five Olympic rings installed on the Eiffel Tower a permanent fixture. Now the Eiffel family has gotten involved.

A Mr. Bean-style comic, a pygmy hippo and a Filipino teen who's been doing dance videos since she was 9 years old: we look at this year's top TikToks of the Global South.

A lesser-known amphibious landing along France's Mediterranean played a big role in liberating the country from the Nazis. Those troops were under French command, but hailed mostly from Africa.

Hadeel al-Shalchi is an editor with Weekend Edition. Prior to joining NPR, Al-Shalchi was a Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press and covered the Arab Spring from Tunisia, Bahrain, Egypt, ...