Fashion designer Ellen London uses textiles from all over the world in her designs, sometimes mixing them — combining a Thai fabric, for example — with one from the U.S. Appalachian region .

ON THIS DAY IN AMERICAN HISTORY On September 28, 1991, Miles Davis, one of the most important figures in jazz, dies in a California hospital at age 65. Davis’ career spanned decades. Over that time, Davis not only changed his style numerous times, but he led the evolution of jazz from bebop in the 1940s early in his career, to a electric rock-jazz fusion in the 1970s. His seminal album, “Kind of Blue” from 1959, was named a “National Treasure” by the U.S. Congress in 2009.

VIDEO: In his second address to the UN General Assembly , President Trump denounced globalism in favor of patriotism and an America First foreign policy. VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren discussed the speech with Michael Pregent, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, and VOA’s UN Correspondent Margaret Besheer shared immediate reaction to the speech .

A large database of clergy abuse cases, details hundreds of cases in which the Catholic Church covered up accusations of abuse by sending problem priests elsewhere, many times to Native American communities .

VIDEO: Istanbul is seeing an explosion of creative graffiti, with women artists largely behind the blast of color that is sweeping Turkey’s main city in the face of what critics say have been mounting restrictions on expression .

VIDEO: An Bui and his siblings emigrated to the United States from Vietnam in the late 1980s. Several years later, his parents followed them to Richmond, Virginia. VOA’s Hung Lai visited the family’s restaurant, which helped make their adopted city one of the nation’s ultimate destinations for beer lovers .