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A UCSD researcher has spent years studying the language acquisition of cats and dogs in 47 countries. You may have seen some of his research on TikTok where animals learn to hit buttons that play words like "outside," "food" and "treats." But are the animals really talking to us, or do they just see us a treat machines? The World's Marco Werman gets to the bottom of things.

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman list a few headlines in the news you may have missed.

Surp Giragos is the largest Armenian church in the Middle East, and it's at least 500 years old. But the community it serves has dwindled to just a handful of Armenian families in the predominantly Kurdish town of Diyarbakir, Turkey. After a decadeslong restoration, the church is preparing to welcome thousands of supporters for Easter services this weekend. The World reports.

April 19th marks the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, the famous 'shot heard "round the world." The start of the American war of independence happened against a global backdrop of Britain, France and Spain jockeying for world dominance, with trade centered in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. The World's Carolyn Beeler explores what was going on around the globe in 1775 w...

The Trump administration continued its bombing campaign against the Houthis, this time targeting a strategically important oil port. It's also the bloodiest attack on Yemen to date. But, the exact number of fighters killed versus civilians is still hard to know precisely. Abdul Ghani Al-Iryani is a senior Researcher at the Sana’a Center for Strategic Studies in Yemen and he speaks with The World's...

President Donald Trump’s latest wave of tariffs is reverberating across the San Diego and Tijuana industrial landscape, leaving manufacturers facing heightened uncertainty but also creating potential opportunities for Mexican industry. The World's Tibisay Zea reports from Tijuana.

Autocratic governments often suppress the independence of universities to eliminate opposition. Steven Cook, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, has written about how that crackdown happened in Egypt, Syria and Turkey. He talks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about his latest article in Foreign Policy, "America’s Universities Could End up Zombies." 

Generations of Canadian soccer players have had to leave their families and travel abroad to play professionally. That all changed Wednesday night when the country's first-ever professional women's soccer league kicked off in Vancouver. Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler have the details.

Wednesday marked the start of the annual Great Moose Migration, a beloved televised event in Sweden that offers audiences a nonstop livestream of the four-legged creatures on their three-week journey. There's no narrator, no background music, just moose and the sounds of nature. This "slow TV" programming is the kind of mediative experience that's taken off in Scandinavia, as Johan Erhag explained...

The Beth El synagogue in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn is known for serving as the home of the operatic cantors who gained fame during the golden age of cantorial music. The building itself is an architectural landmark, often called "the Jewish Carnegie Hall." Reporter Jon Kalish takes us there.

April 17th is the 200th anniversary of the independence of Haiti — but also of the indemnity agreement with France that was a condition of independence. Over the next 122 years, Haiti paid an estimated $21 billion to France. Haitians have been pushing for reparations and French President Emmanuel Macron now says he will set up a joint Franco-Haitian commission to examine France's history with its...

Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler bring you a handful of headlines in the news you may have missed.

Top diplomats from Ukraine, Germany, the UK and the US are in Paris on Thursday. Leading the US delegation is Secretary of State Marco Rubio. The talks are about the war in Ukraine and other regional issues. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with The World's Daniel Ofman.

African penguins are on the edge of extinction with some experts warning that they could disappear by 2026 if trends continue. Overfishing, climate change and oil spillages have had the biggest impact. Dyan de Napoli — penguin expert and author  — was involved in one of the largest animal rescue missions in the world after a massive oil spill off Cape Town, South Africa in 2000. This is her story...

A bright object, initially appearing to be a meteorite, lit up the skies over Mexico's capital early Wednesday. Host Carolyn Beeler explains that scientists determined it was a bolide, a chunk of meteor that disintegrates in the Earth's atmosphere.

A federal court in Denver has found a former member of The Gambia’s military guilty of torturing five people accused of involvement in a failed coup against the West African country in 2006. This constitutes a rare prosecution in the United States for torture committed abroad. Carolyn Beeler speaks with Mariam Sankanu, a Gambian journalist who covered the trial in Denver, about what this case mean...

The first casualties of Joint Task Force Southern Border were reported Tuesday night. Two Marines from Camp Pendleton, just north of San Diego, were killed in a vehicle crash in New Mexico during a reconnaissance mission of the region. The World's hosts explain.

The UK's highest court has ruled the legal definition of "woman" under the 2010 equality law only applies to biological sex. The case was a challenge to a Scottish government position that the legal definition also applied to transgender women who held a gender recognition certificate. The World's Carolyn Beeler spoke with jane fae, director of TransActual UK, about the ruling, what it means for t...

The latest move in tit-for-tat tensions between France and Algeria may signal the end of a budding reset of relations between the two countries. As The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, France and its former colony just can't seem to get along.  

On Tuesday, Ghana announced that foreigners will be kicked out of the country's gold trade as of next month. Gold is Ghana's top export and the country is No. 6 in the world for the prized metal's output. But as researcher Gavin Hilson tells The World's Marco Werman, illicit mining and smuggling operations are pervasive in the country. Hilson studies the environmental and social impacts of the sma...

The largest commercial whaling company in Iceland has canceled its seasonal hunt due to an uncertain economic outlook. Only three countries are allowed to hunt whales — Iceland, Norway and most recently, Japan — and Iceland's primary export market in Japan has been declining. The World's Carolyn Beeler spoke with Sigurður Jóhannesson, director of the Institute of Economic Studies at the University...

Tijuana is a Mexican city less than 20 miles south of San Diego. Because of that close proximity, some musicians in Tijuana are much closer to music trends coming out of the US than the vibes coming out of Mexico City, which is some 1,700 miles away. Still, some artists proudly want to represent Tijuana with their own sounds. One a recent Saturday, Marco Werman went crate digging in Tijuana with m...

After three years of deliberations, negotiators in Geneva have agreed to a treaty detailing how nations would collaborate to combat the next pandemic. They tackled key sticking points including how to ensure fair access to vaccines, drugs and testing materials. Rachael Crockett with the advocacy group Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative talks with The World’s Carolyn Beeler about what the trea...

The Israeli military is conducting a new phase of the war in Gaza. This includes the Israel Defense Forces expanding its operations around the southern city of Rafah. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 current and former spies and soldiers have joined a letter campaign calling on the Israeli government to reconsider its military plans for Gaza. The World's Matthew Bell has the latest.

Nearly half of the first round draft picks at Monday night's 2025 WNBA Draft are international players. The World's Bianca Hillier reports on the new names joining the league, and how the league itself is going global.