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On Wednesday, London’s city government marked the UN’s Day for Remembering the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Abolition. Judge Patrick Robinson from the International Court of Justice gave the keynote address and called for reparations. It follows a report by the Brattle Group that puts into numbers how much the UK owes for its role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The World’s Marco Werman spoke...

Digestion and waste from cows, in other words belching and farting, is responsible for a worrying amount of greenhouse gas emissions every year, possibly up to 15% of global emissions. Ireland with its strong dairy farming industry, is facing up to the fact that having so many cows may be detrimental to the country's climate goals. The Irish government is now considering a radical solution as our...

When Tropical Storm Hilary made landfall in Baja, California, last weekend, it had people in Tijuana, Mexico, worried about infrastructure. With nearly 2.3 million residents, it's Mexico's second-largest city. But Tijuana has failed to keep up with that growth over decades. KPBS reporter Gustavo Solis reports.

The makeshift chairlifts that bring kids to school in remote, mountainous regions of Pakistan are a local solution to a common problem: the scarcity of roads and buses. Arifa Noor, a columnist for the Pakistani newspaper Dawn, in Islamabad, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how and why the jerry-rigged transport system sprung up.  

The International Chess Federation, known as FIDE, is responding to widespread criticism of its new policy to bar transgender women from playing in women's tournaments for two years. FIDE says its announcement last week is meant to give the organization time to set further policy, as host Marco Werman explains.

The Chandrayaan-3 space mission culminated with a moon lander slowly dropping down to the moon's surface, where it landed. The south pole of the moon has never been explored. The World's Marco Werman talks to Namrata Goswami, an expert on India's space program and space policy, about how the mission played out.

Yevegeny Prigozhin, the leader of the Wagner mercenary army is reported dead in a plane crash near the city of Tver, just north of Moscow. Earlier this summer, Prigozhin led an armed mutiny in southern Russia. At the time, he was trying to oust the military leadership within Russia’s Ministry of Defense. Marco Werman is joined by The World’s Daniel Ofman.

Chinese from all walks of life are mourning the death of Isabel Crook, the daughter of Canadian missionaries who joined the Chinese Communist Party, threw in her lot with Mao Zedong’s rural revolution and undertook groundbreaking anthropological work in remote China. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Carl Crook, Isabel’s son, about his mother’s life and legacy.

Folks who follow track and field know Sha'Carri Richardson as an exceptional sprinter. On Monday night, in Budapest, Hungary, the 23-year-old American proved it by winning the 100-meter World Athletics Championships in record time. Host Marco Werman has the details.

This month, the International Chess Federation announced that it would no longer allow transgender women to compete in women's chess tournaments. The policy has met with strong criticism, including from Jennifer Shahade, a two-time US women's chess champion. She explains her opposition to the policy to host Marco Werman.

Human Rights Watch says Saudi border guards have opened fired on hundreds of African migrants trying to cross the border from Yemen into Saudi Arabia. The report said the guards have killed hundreds of people people, including children. The World's Shirin Jaafari has the story.

On Tuesday, in South Africa, the BRICS summit is in full swing. BRICS stands for Brazil Russia India China South Africa, an economic bloc of countries billed as five major emerging economies collectively representing 40% of the world’s population. Two topics on the agenda at the summit: Adding new members and challenging the US dollar. Host Marco Werman speaks to Pádraig Carmody, professor at Trin...

Zimbabwe has Africa's largest reserves of lithium, a key ingredient in producing solar panels and rechargeable batteries for electric vehicles. The country is therefore a big player in the transition to a clean energy future. But under a new law, foreign countries who extract minerals in Zimbabwe are now required to process them in-country to provide jobs to Zimbabweans. That puts China in a very...

On Wednesday, Zimbabweans will take to the polls to vote for their next president. It's expected to be a repeat showdown between incumbent president Emmerson Mnangawa — known as the “crocodile” — and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa. Observers are saying this election is marred by violence and intimidation against the opposition and its supporters. The World's Africa correspondent Halima Gikandi r...

Canada and big tech are not getting along right now. Canada just passed a new media law ordering tech companies like Google and Meta to pay news publishers for news content on their sites. In response, Meta's blocked access to news content on Facebook and Instagram for Canadian users. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Ahmed AlRawi, associate professor at Simon Fraser University in British Columb...

Back in May, Thai voters picked a young progressive politician to become prime minister. But the military powers that be were unwilling to give him a shot as government leader. So, they paved the way for Srettha Thavisin to be named Thailand's new prime minister on Tuesday. Interestingly, he's from a party that has long promised to stand up to the country's military elites. But now, his party is e...

The Panama Canal uses a series of locks to raise the water level and carry ships across from one ocean to the other. But that requires lots of freshwater. It's running low in Panama. The World's Marco Werman talks with Matt Vick, a trade and customs specialist at the Institute of Export and International Trade in the UK, about what's going on at the canal and what it means for the global economy. 

Last year, nearly half a million people applied for a green card to permanently live and work in the United States. The process costs thousands of dollars and in some cases, can take years. But what if there were no yearslong backlogs, or lengthy visa-processing times? From the reporting organization Feet in Two Worlds, Danya AbdelHameid has the story of a pair of artists in the US who created han...

In 1916, Russian forces swept into modern-day Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan to enlist Central Asians to fight for Russia in World War I. The Russians killed an estimated 15,000 people who resisted, and some 100,000 more people died trying to flee to China. More than a century later, the episode still isn't talked about much because of pressure from Russia to literally erase it from the history books....

Six months after the devastating earthquakes in Turkey and northern Syria, a clear pattern has emerged in the hard-hit Turkish province of Hatay. While Turkish citizens who lost their homes have largely been able to move into temporary homes in converted shipping containers, nearly all Syrian refugees are still living in tents. Approximately 1 in 4 residents of Hatay are Syrian, and as The World's...

In Ecuador, there was a peaceful snap presidential election this past weekend amid an unprecedented security crisis that have left three politicians assassinated in less than a month. An establishment leftist and a millennial businessman are headed to runoff on Oct. 15. Host Marco Werman speaks with reporter Tibisay Zea about the recent political security crisis in Ecuador.

Russia’s first lunar mission since 1976 was expected to make moonfall. Instead, Russia’s space agency reported that the remotely operated lunar lander dubbed Luna-25 crash-landed on the surface over the weekend. That leaves India's lunar mission still in the race. To learn more, host Marco Werman spoke to Benjamin Silverstein. He’s a research analyst at the Carnegie Endowment for International Pea...

Bernardo Arévalo upset Guatemala’s political establishment by clenching his country’s presidency this weekend. But he faces a tough task ahead. Political analyst Alvaro Montenegro in Guatemala City and The World’s Marco Werman discuss whether the new leader can take on the elite and bring back exiled judges and prosecutors who questioned corruption.  

After major struggles on the pitch and off, Spain's women's team made history with its first-ever World Cup victory. As The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona, supporters are hoping their win leads to greater equality in professional soccer.

An enormous cargo vessel carrying containers from China to Brazil left port with new sails to assist its journey. They're called "wind wings." Harnessing wind power is one strategy that can reduce fuel use and emissions. The World's Marco Werman talks with John Cooper, the CEO of BAR Technologies, which designed the sails used in this technology's maiden commercial voyage.