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The near-Earth asteroid Bennu is not on a collision course with Earth. At least not this century. But it came close enough for a NASA spacecraft to circle it and scoop up a sample of pristine asteroid dust that may contain clues about the origin of our solar system. Host Carol Hills speaks with Carly Howett, a professor of space instrumentation at the University of Oxford, about the asteroid, the...

The US actors and writers strikes are having an impact far from Hollywood. Blockbuster movies this year like “Barbie” and “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” were shot mainly in the UK. The British film industry receives significant funding from US production companies and the strikes have closed several major film sets across the UK. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Kim Yo-jong, the sister of North Korea’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un, is the murderous regime’s chief propagandist, internal administrator and foreign policymaker. And as Sung-Yoon Lee details in his new book, “The Princess,” she is the most-powerful woman in North Korean history and should not to be dismissed or underestimated by the West. Sung speaks with The World's Carol Hills.

The NHL is playing in Melbourne, Australia, this weekend. The pair of preseason, exhibition games marks the first NHL games played in the Southern Hemisphere. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports from Australia.

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is on a trip to China for the first time in nearly 20 years. Assad had been ostracized by most of the international community since the start of the civil war in Syria. The World’s Shirin Jaafari speaks with host Carol Hills about the significance of the visit.

Across Brazil, members of the country’s Indigenous communities are celebrating. On Thursday, the country’s Supreme Court rejected a legal policy known as “marco temporal” or "the timeframe" — which would have weakened Indigenous groups' ability to claim land. The World's Carol Hills spoke to Ana Alfinito, a lawyer and sociologist based in São Paulo.

Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, the mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone, speaks about the climate resilience work she's been doing since her first election in 2018. 

People seeking asylum are often forced to rely on AI translation tools, such as Google Translate, when they make their cases. But machine translation tools can make mistakes. Reporter Andrew Deck talks with Laicie Heeley, host of the podcast “Things That Go Boom,” about how translation mistakes can be life altering for people seeking asylum.

An Iranian journalist, Kian Amani, was filming a live segment outside of the Millennium Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday afternoon. That's when he was approached and threatened by an Iranian security official. Then on Wednesday evening, a more contentious altercation took place with the same journalist outside of the same hotel. The World's Carol Hills tells the story. 

Recently, Pope Francis set off a firestorm among Ukrainian Catholics when he spoke to a group of Russian youth and praised Russia's great past and culture. The pope later said he didn't mean to praise imperialism, but Ukrainian Greek Catholics, for whom the pope is a spiritual leader, would like to hear his support for Ukraine in the war against Russia. Lydia Tomkiw reports from Lviv, where the Uk...

On the San Diego border with Mexico, hundreds of people are crowded into a no-man's land, hoping to be let into the United States. New US rules were supposed to end large gatherings of people on the border. But in the past week, the numbers have been growing. Gustavo Solis of KPBS reports that local aid groups are passing water, food and blankets through the bars to people who have arrived with li...

Poland's prime minister has said that Ukraine will no receive weapons because Poland is upgrading to more modern weaponry. This announcement comes on the heels of a dispute over economic protection for Poland's farmers as the country has banned the import of Ukrainian grain. The World's Carol Hills talks with Marcin Zaborowski, the policy director for Globsec, a security-focused think tank in Brat...

For generations, The India Club in London has been the place to meet for British Indians and locals looking to taste some southern Indian cuisine. But last week, The India Club closed abruptly after decades in business. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Smita Tharoor, a motivational keynote speaker and daughter of a founding member, about the history of The India Club and why it was so special. 

Spain is home to Morocco's second-largest diaspora after France, and its members are not sitting idle after the earthquake. Nonprofits and individuals are packing vehicles with supplies and driving south toward the straits of Gibraltar where they can ferry into North Africa. But, as The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona, coordinating relief efforts has been tough.

The Biden administration is expanding and extending its temporary protected status order for Venezuela. That includes nearly half a million Venezuelans currently in the US. It will allow Venezuelans to work, with the Biden administration hoping it will provide financial relief to cities and towns across the US dealing with the influx of migrants. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Laura Dib, progr...

More than 20,000 Japanese Canadians were forced from their homes during World War II. They were sent to internment camps, while, back home, much of their property was forcibly sold by the government. Redress came 44 years later, but as Jimmy Thomson reports from Vancouver, much of what was lost is gone forever.

As students in many parts of the world return to school with new names and pronouns, school districts' policies on whether or not to respect those changes vary greatly. The World's Bianca Hillier tells host Carol Hills about the range of policies, and how one new policy is being received in Canada.

Tony Blair served as British prime minister for three consecutive terms from 1997 to 2007. But his decision to support George W. Bush in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 caused bitter divisions both in his party and among Labour voters. Now, after 13 years of Conservative rule, Britain's Labour party is hoping for a return to power in the next general election. Up to now, Labour leaders have ke...

Benjamin Netanyahu has been in office for nine months and in that time he has not met President Joe Biden at the White House. That's customary for strong allies like the US and Israel. But Biden and Prime Minister Netanyahu have been at odds over the proposed judicial reforms in Israel which Netanyahu backs. But on Wednesday, the two leaders are expected to meet on the sidelines of the UN General...

As the dust settles in the wake of the earthquake in Morocco, people are assessing how deep the damage goes. Some cultural sites and traditional Berber and Amazigh buildings have been destroyed, all of them with a story behind them. The World's Carol Hills talks to Abdelatif Ait M’barek, a trekking guide in the town of Imlil in the Atlas mountains who knows the area well.

Armenian separatist forces in Azerbaijan's breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh surrendered on Wednesday, 24 hours after Azerbaijani forces began an offensive to take full control of its territory. Host Carol Hills speaks with Richard Giragosian, director of the Regional Studies Center think tank in Yerevan, about this latest skirmish in the longstanding conflict over the Azerbaijani region which...

A new study from the University of California, Los Angeles, shows a major spike in street drugs laced with fentanyl is responsible for a huge number of opioid overdose deaths in the United States. The supply chain has shifted a bit over the years, but still relies on impunity. The World’s Carol Hills talks with Sam Quiñones, a reporter who focuses on the drug trade, about what’s happening now and...

Verbal fireworks disrupted a meeting of the UN Security Council on Wednesday in New York. The council allowed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to speak ahead of the 15 members, a decision protested by the Russian ambassador. Host Carol Hills explains more.

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres only invited leaders with credible new climate pledges to speak at this year’s UN climate ambition summit. The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler was in the room during this summit. She talks with host Carol Hills about the limited power of the UN to cajole when it comes to climate.  

A group of Tibetan Buddhist monks, living in exile in India, are doing a sacred arts tour this month here in the US. They’re demonstrating an ancient artistic and spiritual practice, creating big, colorful sand mandalas. They say Buddhist traditions like this are under threat because of Chinese government policies in their historic homeland of Tibet. The World’s Amanda Lichtenstein met some of the...