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This week, an English Premier League game was officiated by a Black referee for the first time in 15 years. It's just the second time in the history of the league. Host Marco Werman spoke with Morgan Ofori, a sports journalist with the Guardian, about how significant this is for diversity and why it's taken so long.

How have students been doing since the pandemic? A recent survey by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development or OECD, found an "unprecedented" decline in student performance across the globe — including in the US, Finland and Germany. But, as the OECD's director for education and skills told the World's host Marco Werman, students elsewhere bucked the trend and excelled — particul...

New York Times food writer Yewande Komolafe  grew up in Lagos, Nigeria. When she moved to the US in her late teens, she found herself recreating her favorite dishes by memory. Earlier this year she published a book: "My Everyday Lagos: Nigerian Cooking at Home and in the Diaspora." The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Komolafe about what inspired her book.

Musician Ánnámáret comes from a Saami reindeer-herding family and lives way up in northern Finland, close to the Arctic Circle. She tells us how the ancient Saami tradition of yoiking helps connect her to her roots.

Christians make up about 1,000 of the roughly 2 million people in Gaza, but they have deep connections to the land. So far, 2% of the Christian population has been killed. And members of the community worry this could be the end of Christian presence in Gaza. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

Musician Zach Condon leads the band, Beirut, but his latest album is a solo project, recorded at an isolated cabin in Hadsel, Norway, near the Arctic Circle. He tells host Marco Werman that the cold and blustery winter weather inspired the music, which features an antique foot-powered reed organ, a full-sized pipe organ at a local church and all the electronic gear he could haul to his cabin.

Australia is facing a shortage of piano tuners. It's believed that only 250 certified technicians are left in the country, and many of them are close to retirement. This fall, The World's Sarah Birnbaum visited the Sydney Conservatorium of Music to find out why piano tuning is turning out to be the loneliest job in Australia.

Since China invaded Tibet in 1950, tens of thousands of Tibetans have fled, seeking refuge in countries from neighboring India to others farther afield like Australia and the US. "Far from the Rooftop of the World," a new book of narrative nonfiction by award-winning journalist Amy Yee, examines the lives of Tibetan refugees, and their efforts to preserve their culture abroad. Yee discusses her bo...

The same wall preventing people from migrating across the border is also impacting wildlife. Some measures were taken to allow animals to pass, but ecologists worry if more sections of the wall are built, they won't be able to get through. KJZZ reporter Ron Dungan found that, ironically, the roads put in to erect the wall have also made this rugged and inhospitable section more accessible to peopl...

On the day after Christmas, hundreds of people gather every year in the seaside town of Cromer, England, for an act of collective self-inflicted hypothermia. They jump in the icy North Sea. It's a ritual that reporter Leo Hornak has never been tempted to take part in, until today.

The iconic white sails of the Sydney Opera House were lit up 1 night in every 5 last year, to mark everything from St. Patrick's Day to the death of Olivia Newton John. Now, the New South Wales government in Australia is considering a plan to cap the number of days the sails can be illuminated. The World's Marco Werman has more.

After being missing for three weeks, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has resurfaced in an Arctic penal colony in Siberia. Navalny's spokeswoman posted on X (formerly Twitter) that "Alexey is doing well" and that his lawyer had visited him. Host Marco Werman speaks with Mikhail Fishman, anchor at the independent Russian channel TV Rain (now broadcasting out of Amsterdam) about how and why...

After weeks of protest by families of Hamas captives and others over the war in Gaza, the protests against the Netanyahu government are getting bigger. His is the most right-wing coalition in Israel's history, and many in the country remain concerned about what that government is trying to do, from judicial "reform" to ending the dream of a Palestinian state, as Rebecca Collard reports from Tel Av...

Israel is suspected of being behind the assassination of an Iranian revolutionary guard general in Syria over the weekend. The US also attacked pro-Iran groups in Iraq following an attack on US positions by these same groups. Host Marco Werman speaks with Matthew Levitt, a fellow with the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, about Israel's hints at its willingness to regionalize the war betw...

It's not always easy to assimilate for immigrants who come to the United States. A new language, culture and environment can be difficult to accept or even understand. Hadi Shavarini came to America after the revolution in Iran in 1979. When his young daughter found out about Christmas, she wanted a traditional celebration. But it wasn't what Shavarini had grown up with. So, he came up with a Chri...

Moving to a new country means packing up your life. Literally getting all your stuff into bags and boxes, to prepare for a new life. Polish teacher Ewa Chrusciel knows this very well. So, she wanted to find out what immigrants take with them when they leave their homes. 

For many, the holidays are about helping others. Some people volunteer at shelters. Others donate gifts. These small acts of kindness can make a huge difference in people's lives. Julianne Whitney found out years later about the impact she had by writing letters to her brother's Navy buddies.

Names can be powerful, and knowing what they mean can often reveal a lot about who we are and where we come from. U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is originally from Zimbabwe. In her Stories From The Stage, produced by GBH's World TV channel, she celebrates her name in a new life in the US.

Szifra Birke's parents were Holocaust survivors who came to the US from Poland. Birke was just a teenager when she discovered that her name was not what she had lived with until then. This story is about her journey of embracing her Hebrew name. 

Many Muslims in America face discrimination based on their names. Sofia Colombo-Abdullah discovered this early on in her life. But her father made her realize the power behind her name and she became proud as told to Stories From The Stage produced by GBH's World TV channel. 

Rinaz Mala Mohamed arrived in the US on a cold Christmas day. She fled Syria after the civil war began. Her family had lost everything. So, immigrating to America was a gift for her.

Biar Kon grew up in a refugee camp in Kenya after his family fled violence in Sudan. He moved to the United States as a young adult. He was shocked to find that homelessness also exists in the US. Today's Stories From The Stage is about a lesson in humanity. These are produced by our partners at the GBH TV network — World. 

During World War II, a German Jew hiding out in The Netherlands created an unusual form of resistance to the Nazis: a satirical magazine filled with hand-written poetry and covered in handmade collages. From 1943 to 1945, Curt Bloch published the magazine titled,“Het Onderwater Cabaret” from a crawl space in a Dutch home. His work will be featured next year in an exhibit at the Jewish Museum Berli...

The University of the People bills itself as the first nonprofit, tuition-free, American-accredited online university. Those things are all true. Thanks to technological developments and the acceptance of online learning, the nature of higher education is changing fast. But are the university's 137,000 students from more than 200 countries, including the U-S, getting a quality education? Emily Haa...

Earlier this year, aid groups in Portland, Maine, saw an alarming rise in the number of pregnant migrants in need of housing. Scrambling for a response, one Portland-based nonprofit came up with a creative solution: converting a former convent for elderly nuns into a supportive housing program. Maine Public Radio's Ari Snider reports on how this program could be a model for other places in Maine a...