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They were married for 25 years. They had two daughters, built a network of successful businesses, and then they got divorced. He took all the assets and she got nothing. So, she sued. And she won. Turns out, there's a law on the books in Spain that prevents these sorts of things from happening, but a lot people never knew about it. Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona. 

China and Russia have expressed concern that AUKUS, the US, the UK and Australian program to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia, will weaken nuclear global nonproliferation policy. China on Tuesday accused the US, Britain and Australia of trading a, "path of error and danger." Host Marco Werman examines those concerns with James Acton, co-director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the...

It's already the longest-lived tropical cyclone ever recorded. Now, Cyclone Freddy has returned to Mozambique for a second time in a few weeks, bringing powerful winds and torrential rains. The storm has killed more than 100 people since it first developed on Feb. 6. UNICEF spokesperson Guy Taylor tells The World’s Marco Werman what he’s witnessed up close in Mozambique. 

The World's host Marco Werman closes out this Monday edition of the program looking at this Indian Telugu-language song that won at the Academy Awards. But it also has a political subtext that concerns some.

HSBC took over Silicon Valley Bank's subsidiary in the UK after it collapsed during a bank run in the United States. Theoretically, the move should allow the numerous tech firms that deposited millions of dollars with Silicon Valley Bank to access their money. The World's Marco Werman speaks with Eddie Duszlak, the founder of Virtuent, an investment firm that focuses on banks, about the crisis.

The World’s host Marco Werman catches up with Cuban-American musician Gloria Estefan as she looks back at her successful career as a bilingual singer and songwriter.

For months now, the fighting in and around the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut has been relentless. And the past week, according to Ukraine’s president, has been particularly deadly. Last night Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine has managed to “kill more than 1,100 enemy soldiers” near Bakhmut. The World’s Daniel Ofman has more on the battle for the city.

Gary Lineker, a highly-paid and wildly popular British sportscaster, will return to the BBC this coming Saturday. This follows a controversy over a tweet he made last week about the language used by Britain's Home Secretary to announce the UK’s new migration policy. Linekar’s removal from the airwaves over the weekend had been met with widespread condemnation by sports fans who argued that the BBC...

South Africa's escalating energy crisis has led to a national state of disaster declared by the president, yet no truly convincing plans have been made to move the country out of severe rolling blackouts. Elna Schütz explains what life with frequent "load-shedding," or rolling power cuts, is like in Johannesburg and Soweto.

Japan has ended its mask mandate for most situations. Reporter Thisanka Siripala took to the streets in Tokyo to find out whether people are ready to shed their face coverings.

Israel is taking another look at its security strategy after the restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Israel had seen Saudi Arabia's anti-Iran stance as a bulwark in its security strategy. The World's Marco Werman speaks with Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, about potential consequences for Israel's security.

Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi was thrown into the global spotlight in 2008 after hurling his shoes at then-President George W. Bush. Two decades after the US-led invasion of Iraq, The World’s Shirin Jaafari sits down with Zaidi to ask him about how he views the state of his country today.

The best baseball players on Earth are facing off this month at the World Baseball Classic. The event also includes some non-superstars. The Czech team actually includes a teacher, fire fighter, and financial analyst moonlighting as baseball players. The World's Jason Margolis reports. 

Cyclone Freddy formed in the Indian Ocean on Feb. 6 and now it's spinning into the history books as the longest-lived tropical storm in recorded history: 33 days and still counting. Freddy has already hit Madagascar and Mozambique, and it's hurtling back towards Mozambique, again. To understand this weather phenomenon, The World's Carol Hills speaks to Jeff Masters, meteorologist at Yale Climate C...

Bibi and Bichu Tesfamariam went from juggling oranges and socks stuffed with seeds in their hometown of Jimma, Ethiopia, to founding the world-famous Circus Abyssinia. The brothers tell The World's Sarah Birnbaum that they are on a mission to foster and promote circus talent in Ethiopia, and Africa as a whole, and share it with the rest of the world.

The legal age of sexual consent in Japan is 13, the lowest of all developed nations in the world. New legislation would raise that age to 16, and tighten laws regarding sex crimes to make it easier for the courts to hold perpetrators accountable in cases involving both children and adults. But as Thisanka Siripala reports from Tokyo, many feel the new legislation doesn't go far enough to protect v...

The United Nations has purchased an oil tanker to replace a rusting storage vessel off the coast of Yemen that could leak up to a million barrels of oil into the Red Sea. Host Carol Hills has an update. 

Saudi Arabia and Iran committed to restoring diplomatic relations today in a deal brokered by China. It represents a huge breakthrough between the Middle East's biggest powers since they broke off relations in 2016. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Dina Esfandiary, a senior adviser with the International Crisis Group, about the significance of this deal and China's role in helping to facilitate...

Xi Jinping has secured a third term as general-secretary of the Chinese Communist Party. The position wields unmatched power for deciding the direction that China will take in the future. The World's Carol Hills speaks with Robert Daly, the head of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Wilson Center, about what Xi Jinping and the Chinese government will seek to tackle next....

Members of Canada's National Women's soccer team have been speaking out about ongoing contract negotiations with the country's federation, Canada Soccer. The athletes are asking for equal pay and equal resources as they prepare for this summer's World Cup in Australia and New Zealand. On Thursday, they detailed their complaints to parliamentarians in Ottawa. The World's Bianca Hillier reports. 

The international agreement that allows Ukraine to export wheat, corn, sunflower oil and other agricultural products across the globe is set to expire on March 18. Host Carol Hills speaks with Joseph Glauber, a senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute, about how the deal has affected global grain prices, and what issues Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Natio...

It's been a testy few years of relations between Britain and France. But a meeting between the British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Friday aimed to reset that relationship. It's the first bilateral summit between the two states in five years. There was plenty on the agenda: the war in Ukraine, energy resources and European relations with China. But th...

Chaim Topol is most famous for breathing life into Tevye, a stern, yet loving, patriarch in an early 1900s Jewish shtetl. It's a role the actor played on stage thousands of times. Topol's booming voice and deeply empathetic performance made this character and his songs known around the world. He died today at the age of 87 at his home in Israel. The World's Anna Kusmer reports.

The US military's Guantanamo Bay prison facility continues to see the removal and resettlement of its detainee population. At its height, the prison complex held roughly 740 detainees. But now that number is down to only 31 people. The World's host Marco Werman speaks with Carol Rosenberg, who covers Guantanamo Bay for the New York Times, about how the US facilitates detainee resettlement and what...

Israelis have taken part in huge protests for the last 10 weeks, pushing back against a plan to overhaul the country's judicial system. Today, demonstrators blocked roads, hindered access to Israel's main international airport, and targeted the office of a right-wing think tank called the Kohelet Policy Forum. The group helped write the bill that many Israelis say would hobble the judiciary and un...