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In September 2022, 15 members of Spain's national women's soccer team wrote to the Spanish Football Federation saying their head coach, Jorge Vilda, had created an atmosphere that was negatively impacting their emotional and physical well-being. The athletes said they would refuse to play for the national team until the issues were resolved. Now, with the FIFA Women's World Cup looming, only a few...

As Russia readied its forces to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Moscow was also stepping up its cyberattacks on the country. US Cyber Command, the cyber wing of the military, went into action, flying into Kyiv with its "hunt kits." Dina Temple-Raston, of the Click Here podcast, gets a behind-the-scenes look with members of the team who were part of the, operation, Hunt Fo...

The UN General Assembly voted to set up an independent body to investigate and clarify the status of missing persons in Syria. More than 130,000 people are considered missing or "disappeared" in Syria since the start of the country’s uprising and civil war. The World's host Carol Hills spoke with Syrian activist and journalist Wafa Ali Mustafa about her own father's disappearance, as well as her r...

To English speakers, the word, “peanut” isn’t especially funny. But in Serbian, ‘kikiriki’, puts a smile on your face; Serbs consider it the funniest word in their language. But why is that the case? Psycholinguists have discovered some clues, as Patrick Cox reports.

It's too early to say exactly what the impacts of this fire season will mean for the province of Quebec and the rest of Canada. What's clear is that early into the season, this is already the worst fire year the country has had on record, with blazes raging in every corner of the country. Eastern Canada is getting a particular wake-up call that they may need to manage their forests differently to...

A week after Yevgeny Prigozhin led his Wagner Group fighters on a march towards Moscow, many questions remain unanswered. There's been speculation about the future role of the Wagner private military company in Ukraine and beyond, and about a shake-up among Russia's military leadership. The World's Daniel Ofman has the latest on the implications of the mutiny.

The fatal police shooting of a Black 17-year-old boy outside Paris this week has fueled social divisions along racial lines. Host Marco Werman speaks with Maboula Soumahoro, a professor at the University of Tours in Paris and the founder of French Black History Month, about problems associated with racism in France, and how they play out in a society that prides itself on "Liberté, Egalité, Frater...

Host Marco Werman previews new music from the German punk band, The Bloodstrings, playing the title track from their new album Heartache Radio.

Speculation continues over the fate of the Wagner mercenary group following its aborted mutiny in Russia last weekend. But members of the organization are still present across Africa, especially in countries connected to lucrative mining operations. Host Marco Werman speaks with Nathalia Dukhan, senior investigator at The Sentry, whose report on Wagner's operations in the Central African Republic...

A court of appeals judge in the United Kingdom has ruled against the government's plan to send asylum-seekers to Rwanda, dealing a blow to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak. The government has said it will appeal the ruling in the country's Supreme Court. Host Marco Werman has the details. 

The governor of Massachusetts is in Ireland lobbying for more Irish to bring their businesses to the state. Healey is highlighting the close cultural ties between Massachusetts and Ireland during her trip. Host Marco Werman speaks with GBH's Adam Reilly about the details. 

In a nationwide address in the 1970s, President Richard Nixon declared drug abuse to be “public enemy No. 1" and stepped up efforts to shut down the global trade. Much of the initial efforts of the DEA were focused on Southeast Asia where US troops in Vietnam were using heroin. The World's Patrick Winn tells the story of an investigator who tried to bust up a heroin ring in Thailand and was stymie...

In France, hip-hop is second only to the US in terms of popularity and influence. As the genre turns 50, we're spending the summer looking at places and cultures where the music has thrived. Samuel Lamontagne is a historian and co-leader of UCLA's Hip Hop Initiative at UCLA and speaks with host Marco Werman about how French artists have helped revolutionize the genre.

Sri Lanka's government announced a five-day bank holiday starting on Thursday. The move is aimed at restructuring the country's debts. Host Marco Werman speaks with Shanta Devarajan, a Sri Lanka economist, about whether this move will help to restructure the country's debts and meet the conditions set by the IMF for a bailout. 

For the first time, scientists have reported that they were able to "hear" low-frequency gravitational waves caused by the motion of massive black holes across the universe. It's big news in the world of science and host Marco Werman gets a primer in terms non-scientists can understand. He speaks with Jason Hessels, chief astronomer at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy (ASTRON) in Amst...

French President Emmanuel Macron held a crisis Cabinet meeting on Thursday afternoon as protests continued in France. Bus and tram services in Paris were halted, and 40,000 police officers are being deployed across the country as authorities brace for a third night of violent demonstrations. The World's Orla Barry speaks with host Marco Werman about the latest developments. 

Eid al-Adha is approaching and Muslims across Senegal are preparing to celebrate. Despite economic tensions and recent political unrest, people are looking forward to family reunions and revered religious traditions. The World’s Maria Elena Romero reports from northern Senegal.

Host Marco Werman catches us up on some attention grabbing stories: A 13-year-old Australian skateboarder, Arisa Trew, became the first female ever to perform a 720 trick; New Zealand declared a national war on rats; and a portrait by Austrian painter Gustav Klimt sold at Sotheby’s for the highest price ever paid for a painting in Europe.

Thirty years ago this month, Ireland decriminalized homosexuality. Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, the first openly gay governor of the state, gave a speech in the Irish Senate yesterday marking the event. She noted that in 2015, Ireland became the first country in the world to introduce same-sex marriage through a national referendum. In 2017, it elected its first openly gay prime minister....

Last year, 19 children in Uzbekistan died after being poisoned by cough syrup. Now, Reuters is reporting that the Indian manufacturer of the medicine used a toxic industrial-grade ingredient rather than producing the legitimate pharmaceutical version. Host Marco Werman speaks with Krishna Das, the South Asia Breaking News Editor for Reuters in New Delhi, who co-reported the story.

For several weeks now, Taiwan has been gripped by a MeToo movement. Hundreds have come forward, accusing politicians, celebrities and everyday people of sexual misconduct. It all began with a Netflix drama that prompted the outflow of accusations. Ashish Valentine has more details from Taipei.

They’re statues that had been in the family for several generations. They turned out to be from Mexico and thousands of years old. Lisa Aronson took them to the Mexican Consulate in Oxnard, California, and bid them an emotional goodbye. KCLU reporter Caroline Feraday chronicles why.

Peru is dealing with a record outbreak of dengue. At least 150,000 people have come down with the viral disease this year — and nearly 250 people have died. Dengue is also spiking in Laos and Sri Lanka, and is threatening to spread to Europe as climate change transforms weather patterns around the world. The World's Carol Hills speaks to Neelika Malavige, head of the Dengue Global Program at the D...

In nature, you will never find a flower growing underground, unless you take a trip to the southeast Asian island of Borneo — and witness a truly unusual plant. New to scientists, Pinanga subterranea is a species of palm with the remarkable ability to grow flowers and fruit beneath the soil. As London-based botanist Ben Kuhnhäuser tells host Marco Werman, how the plant survives is a mystery.

Since the start of Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has increasingly restricted access to information about the war. It has banned Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and TikTok. These and other restrictions on free speech have pushed some content makers to leave the country. As The World's Shirin Jaafari reports from Dubai, many have found the United Arab Emirates a welcoming place to lan...