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The manatees of the Amazon region have the familiar nostrils and sad eyes of their Florida relatives but they are smaller — and they're endangered. Ongoing hunting and the growing effects of climate change have contributed to their dropping numbers over the years but a number of local efforts are underway to bring them back. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Miriam Marmontel, an Amazonian manatee ex...

Zhao Xintong made history at the Men's World Snooker Championship this week when he became the first player from any Asian country to win the title. The win also marks Zhao's return to the sport after serving a 20-month ban for being part of a match-fixing scandal that rocked the snooker world in 2023. Now, he hopes his comeback will spark a wave of snooker champions from China in the years to com...

Trump administration officials told reporters this week that they’re planning to send a group of migrants to Libya aboard a US military plane. But today, Libya’s government, as well as militias that control eastern Libya, rejected the plan. Sally Hayden, the author of "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route", speaks with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler...

April 30, 2025, marked 50 years since the fall of Saigon in South Vietnam. Just seven days later — marked today — a plane carrying 70 refugees landed at Fort Chaffee near Fort Smith, Arkansas. By the end of 1975, more than 50,000 refugees passed through Fort Chaffee. One of those refugees was 1-year-old Ngoc Nguyen, a Californian who revisited the area after recently discovering her roots in Arkan...

Four men were sentenced today for attempting to smuggle more than 5,000 ants out of Kenya. Their punishment is a fine of $7,700 or a year in jail. Why would anyone risk smuggling that many ants? As The World's Host Carolyn Beeler explains, there are a lot of ant lovers out there — who both find the insects incredibly cute and amazingly resourceful — and who will pay big bucks for exotic ants they...

Syria's Interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa is in France for talks. French President Emmanuel Macron says he's willing to help the new government, as long as it respects the rights of all Syrians. In the town of Maaloula in western Syria, which has long been a center of Christianity in the country, residents speak Aramaic, the language believed to have been used by Jesus. Years of conflict and displ...

Some of the oldest poems are about war. Verses about warfare were carved onto Sumerian tablets that are more than four millennia old. Japanese samurai also wrote poetry about battles, as did Walt Whitman, describing the American Civil War and its horrors. Less explored is poetry’s role in a war happening right now — the deadliest conflict in Asia. The World’s Patrick Winn reports on the rebel poet...

There are 135 Catholic cardinals from 70 different countries who will convene on Wednesday, May 7, for a secretive conclave that will end with the selection a new pope. Vatican watchers are wondering whether the next pontiff will be a reform-minded modernist, like Pope Francis himself, or more of a conservative traditionalist, like many of Francis' critics. Among the cardinals voting for a new pop...

For three straight days, drone strikes by the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) have been pummeling Sudan’s principal seaport, Port Sudan. The strikes have torched the country’s  biggest fuel depot, closed the airport and caused a citywide blackout. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with a resident of the city who, for security reasons, preferred not to use his name.

Germany’s parliament confirmed Friedrich Merz as the country’s next chancellor on Monday, but only after failing to secure enough support in a first-round vote earlier in the day. This makes Merz the first candidate to fail such a vote since 1949 and leaves questions about the strength of his coalition during a challenging time for the country. The World's Host Carolyn Beeler spoke to Cathryn Clüv...

It may be hundreds of miles away from any coastline, but the Bavarian capital of Munich is home to one of the world’s most iconic — albeit dangerous — waves. The Eisbach wave apparently appeared overnight in 1972 after the city submerged several concrete blocks under a bridge to block the river’s strong current. This created an accidental constant flowing wave effect — one which experienced surfer...

The Zool (Torch) Festival is held annually at a mountain shrine south of Srinagar in Indian-administered Kashmir. It's a vibrant blend of folklore, Sufi devotion and seasonal tradition. Rooted in a local legend about a demon who once terrorized the area and was eventually defeated, the festival symbolizes the victory of light over darkness. Syed Shahriyar reports from Kashmir.

Israel has targeted the international airport in Sanaa, Yemen, after the Houthis fired missiles at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel that managed to evade Israeli air defense systems on Sunday. US President Donald Trump later announced that United States bombing campaign against the Houthis would end after they, in the president's words, "capitulated."

Bergen, Norway, is already one of the rainiest cities in the world. And now, it's getting more rain and more intense rain because of climate change. In response, the city is opening up its stormwater infrastructure, building rivers instead of adding pipes to manage flooding. The World's Hannah Chanatry reports that this is part of a city-wide mandate to use nature-based solutions to mitigate clima...

This week, photographer Moises Saman was declared the winner of the 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography. Photographs he took in Syria depicting the horrors of the Assad regime won him the award. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Saman about his work in Syria and what he's learned about humanity as he's captured the tragedy of war in the Middle East and beyond.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney met today with US President Donald Trump. The two men were cordial, and agreed on the need for Canada to step up its military. Carney also praised Trump's work on the world stage. But as Host Carolyn Beeler tells us, when the idea of Canada as the 51st US state came up, things got a little tense.

North Korea confirmed that it sent troops to fight in Ukraine, but with tens of thousands of Russians killed in the fighting, the Wall Street Journal reports that Moscow is now turning to Pyongyang to reinforce another sector: Russia's workforce. North Korea analyst Rachel Minyoung Lee told The World's Host Carolyn Beeler that ties are likely to only deepen between the two countries moving forward...

Skype has been shut down by its owner Microsoft today. It comes more than two decades after its inital launch in 2003. Skype was among the most popular chat services across the globe until the rise of Viber, WhatsApp and, later, Zoom. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai, a senior writer with TechCrunch, about the rise of Skype and why it was it was so innovative at the ti...

When the Taliban regained power in 2021, women were barred from sports and the Afghanistan national women's cricket team was effectively disbanded. Many of the team members fled to Australia, where they’ve been fighting to play together again. Now, the International Cricket Council — the sport's global governing body — has announced support for the exiled athletes. The World’s Bianca Hillier repor...

A new book by journalist Ted Genoways sheds light on the obscure history behind Mexico’s most iconic spirit. Once little-known outside its homeland, tequila found unexpected fame during US Prohibition, when Americans crossed the border in search of legal libations. The World's Tibisay Zea traveled to the city of Tequila in Jalisco, Mexico, alongside Genoways, to understand why Americans saved tequ...

A Soviet-era spacecraft is expected to come hurling down back to Earth after being stuck in orbit for more than 50 years. The Kosmos 482 probe was intended to reach Venus, but never made it. Instead, it’s been circling Earth since 1972, and gradually descending. The World’s Daniel Ofman reports.

Musician El León Pardo has pronounced himself king of Cumbia Espacial, or Space Cumbia. It's here that he's created a tropical, psychedelic-like world where the coral is constantly changing color and the trees have a language all their own. And because El León Pardo is king, when he gives the signal, we all have to get up and dance.

Two quick election updates today. The first from Romania, where the far-right candidate George Simion won a decisive victory yesterday in the first round of the presidential election. And then to Australia, which has re-elected Anthony Albanese as prime minister. He won over hardline conservative Peter Dutton, who appeared to have the upper hand as recently as a month ago.

Since last month's deadly attack in Kashmir, when gunmen opened fire on mostly Indian tourists, killing 26, India and Pakistan's already tense relationship is in even greater crisis. Last week, a Pakistani cabinet minister said their intelligence suggests India might attack. The whole thing seems to have alarmed Iran enough that they've sent their foreign minister to Islamabad to help mediate toda...

Anyone around in the 1980s might recall the hand wringing over “test tube” babies, conceived in IVF labs. That now seems quaint — today, more than 1 in 50 US babies are conceived by IVF — but on the horizon are mind-blowing experiments in reproductive science that may cause much more controversy. Breakthroughs are happening in East Asia, where birthrates are in free fall and officials are clamorin...