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A curling team in a mountain town near Barcelona claims to have invented the sport — one year before the Scots — nearly 500 years ago. But the evidence for this is sketchy at best, as is the seriousness of the team itself. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Vallvidrera, Spain.

US troops are being asked to leave Niger after the government there revoked a security accord with the United States. There are about 1,000 American troops in Niger working to stabilize the West African nation and fight militants operating in the region. Host Marco Werman speaks with Cameron Hudson, a senior associate at the Center for International and Strategic Studies, about what this means for...

Almost a billion people will head to the polls over seven phases, or dates, in India. The country's election commission announced the dates of the polling on Saturday. They will begin on April 19 with the last election being held on June 1. Results are expected on June. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist BJP party are expected to win. This will be the world's largest-ever elect...

Famine is “imminent” in northern Gaza and could occur any time between mid-March and May, says a new UN report. Yousef Hammash, a Gazan aid worker with the Norwegian Refugee Council in Rafah tells The World’s host Carolyn Beeler what he has his two young children go through each day to find food.

In Moscow, Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed a landslide victory in the presidential elections held over the weekend. For him, that means another six years in the Kremlin. According to the Russian election commission, Putin won 87% of the vote, but most Western countries have said that the elections were neither free nor fair. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Daniel Ofman, who covered...

The Sunflower Movement in Taiwan was a student-led grassroots movement that stopped the rushed passage of a bill that would have tied the island closer to China 10 years ago. Students occupied the Legislature for three weeks. The movement awoke the power of the people, and is credited with changing Taiwan's political direction as Ashish Valentine reports from Taipei.

Since Oct. 7, there has been an increase in violent settler activity across the West Bank, with more than 260 Palestinians killed. There are also accusations of an increasingly blurred line between settlers and military forces. According to the UN, IDF forces accompanied or supported settlers during about half of recent settler attacks. Reporter Rebecca Rosman met with two farmers in a village nea...

Australia is the latest country to restore funding to UNWRA, the United Nations aid agency for Palestinians. Australia, along with 15 other countries, suspended aid to UNRWA in January, after Israel said some of its employees were involved in the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas. Host Marco Werman has this update.

Prices of chocolate eggs and bunnies are higher this year, the result of a shortage of cocoa beans following three successive years of poor harvests in Ghana and Ivory Coast. Host Marco Werman speaks with Steve Wateridge, head of research at Tropical Research Services, who says the bean shortages are due to long-standing problems with diseased cocoa trees that have gone unaddressed, and he predict...

Countries in Africa have some of the harshest and most discriminatory LGBTQ policies in the world. Last year, Uganda passed an anti-LGBTQ law that sparked sanctions from the United States. And now, lawmakers in Ghana recently passed a bill that could lead to a severe crackdown on LGBTQ activities. Ghana's president is under pressure domestically to sign the bill into law, but could face economic c...

A new national poll seems to suggest what a lot of people have already noticed: that young males in Spain are increasingly fed up with feminism, at least the way they see it. A majority of 16- to 34-year-olds say they're no longer treated equally in society. Some are taking solace on the internet, where some influencers have taken up the cause. Others, some worry, may end up supporting far-right p...

Clubbers in Berlin have raved about the city's vibrant techno scene for decades. Now, after more than 10 years of campaigns, the German clubs have made their way onto UNESCO's official list of intangible cultural heritage. Host Marco Werman has the story. 

Archaeologists at Çatalhöyük, a Neolithic settlement in central Turkey, have discovered what may be the world's oldest bread loaf. The carbonized lump was found in an oven and was made from coarsely ground grain. As The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports, the finding helps archaeologists trace the diets of early humans. 

The pandemic has been a global trauma with a silver lining of immense scientific and medical development. The World's Marco Werman talks with Michael Mina a physician-scientist who spent the pandemic focused on immunology and epidemiology at Harvard, about where the world is now and how prepared we are for the future.

Russian American director Michael Lockshin began his film adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s classic novel "Master and Margarita" before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Now that it’s finally been released, Russians are crowding theaters to watch the cinematic send-up of state tyranny and it's hitting even closer to home, as Lockshin explains to The World’s Marco Werman. 

The British government is banning foreign ownership of magazines and newspapers in the country. The World's hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain.

The British government has published a new definition of extremism aimed at curbing a surge in hate crimes against both Jews and Muslims since the start of the Israel-Hamas war. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said earlier this month that Islamist and far-right extremists were seeking to undermine Britain's democracy. But Muslim groups say they fear they will be unfairly targeted under the new rules wh...

Most macaws are not native to Caracas, Venezuela. But hundreds of them roam freely through its neighborhoods. And they have formed a special relationship with the city’s residents.  Manuel Rueda has the story.

Last month was the warmest February ever recorded. That has meant less ice in a lot of places, including on the Great Lakes, which has seen record low ice cover. It's been a disappointing year for ice-fishing outfitters, ice skaters and those who rely on a hard winter freeze for ice roads to remote communities. The World's Carolyn Beeler has the story.

Russia is holding its presidential election on Friday and the results are all but certain. Vladimir Putin is looking to secure his fifth term in office; he's been in power as president or prime minister since 1999. Yet, some Russians are still trying to monitor the elections to point out irregularities and falsifications. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports from Riga, Latvia.

Haiti's armed gangs control much of the country, and the lack of a functioning government there exacerbates the island nation's humanitarian problems. Host Marco Werman speaks with analyst Alexander Causwell, of the Caribbean Policy Research Institute, who sees Haiti's lawlessness less as a criminal gang problem and more as a full-blown insurgency requiring a military response.

By many accounts, Aya Nakamura is currently the most popular French singer in the world. She is rumored to be the main performer at the Opening Ceremony of the Paris Olympics this summer. But some people say Nakamura is not the right person for the job. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports.

A dozen countries across Africa suffered a major internet outage on Thursday as multiple undersea telecommunication cables reported failures, network operators and internet watch groups said. The cause of the failure was not immediately clear, as host Marco Werman explains.

For the first time, Denmark’s government has introduced a plan to conscript women into its military. Women have served in Denmark on a voluntary basis since 1998. The plan would see an expanded service for men and women. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Kathrine Bjerg Bennike, an academic at Aalborg University in Denmark, about what this means for Danish women and why this is happening now.

As part of the effort to get more food and water into Gaza, the Jordanian Air Force is conducting air drops into the beleaguered territory. The World's Shirin Jaafari travels along on one of the flights to see what the logistics are like and what the air force thinks about delivering aid.