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This month, the Udi people are celebrating 100 years since they established a home in the Republic of Georgia. Their unique culture is seeing a revival in interest, although the language is in danger of dying out. Patrick Cox reports from Georgia on the language's unique properties.

Like in other cities across the world, electric scooter usage is skyrocketing in Paris. But so are concerns about their safety. Rebecca Rosman reports from Paris that the city is considering banning e-scooters, or passing a new set of regulations on their usage.

On the opening day of the US Africa Leaders Summit, the US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield talks with The World’s host Marco Werman about the challenges US officials face in deepening ties with the continent, while countering the expanding roles there of Beijing and Moscow.

A pair of dogs that North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un gave South Korean President Moon Jae-in four years ago are now at a zoo in Gwangju, South Korea, after a dispute over who should pay to care for them. Host Marco Werman has the details.

Melting permafrost is suspected of contributing a great deal to global warming. But sanctions against Russia this year have disrupted permafrost research, and threatened collaborations with scientists in Russia. Levi Bridges has the details of how researchers are struggling to gather data across war lines.

President Biden is hosting leaders from across the African continent in DC for a three day summit that starts on Tuesday. Many authoritarian leaders will be in attendance, and opposition activists from the continent say the summit is further empowering Africa's least-democratic voices. The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Ugandan opposition leader Daniel Kawuma.

Nurses in Northern Ireland walked off the job today, and more strikes are planned in the UK throughout the month. Reporter Andrew Connelly in London outlines what the nurses want, where negotiations stand and how a strike might impact the already- overburdened NHS.

Libya has faced instability for more than a decade since the ouster of longtime dictator Muammar Gaddafi. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Jalel Harchaoui, an associate fellow at the Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies, about the state of Libya's civil war and how the chaos allowed for the Lockerbie suspect to be taken into custody.

Canadian hospitals are struggling to cope with a recent surge in respiratory viruses. Children’s hospitals have been especially hard-hit. In many parts of the country, parents are waiting with their kids up to 18 hours to see someone in an emergency ward. With RSV, the flu and COVID-19 hitting Canadians hard, Anita Elash reports from Toronto that many health care workers and hospital administrator...

Starting Friday, Belgian police began searching more than a dozen homes, seized at least 600,000 euros and arrested at least four people in an anti-corruption sweep that prosecutors are calling bribes connected to an unnamed Gulf state. One of those arrested was a top member of parliament, Eva Kaili, who had traveled to Qatar in October ahead of the FIFA World Cup and later defended the country as...

Ukraine conducted a major missile strike on Melitopol over the weekend, a city that Russia has held since February. Today, Russia attacked Ukraine's Black Sea port of Odessa, targeting energy infrastructure. The World's host Marco Werman talks to Ben Hodges, a former army lieutenant general who commanded US forces in Europe.

The man alleged to have transported the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 that killed 270 people, is now in US custody. Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir al-Marimi, a former Libyan intelligence officer, will face prosecution in Washington, DC, according to US authorities. Among those onboard who died were 190 Americans. It's the deadliest attack ever to have taken pla...

World Cup fans are gathered in Qatar this month, even if their own country isn't playing. Reporter Manuel Rueda asked fans from Egypt, Palestine, the Philippines, India and Nepal who they were rooting for. 

Congress has just passed the Big Cat Public Safety Act, which will prohibit Americans from keeping tigers, lions and other big cat species as pets. It also bans public contact with the species, including cub petting. It will also give the United States more clout in international efforts to curb breeding and trafficking in other countries. Marco Werman speaks with Sharon Guynup, an investigative j...

The global health partnership known as Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, announced it would cease distribution of the COVID-19 vaccine to middle-income countries. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Lawrence Gostin, director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University Law School, about the factors behind Gavi's decision and the consequences for the middle-income c...

Deadly floods this past summer in Seoul, South Korea, put a spotlight on informal basement apartments common in the city. In August, 13 people died following heavy rain including a family who had been trapped in their home underground. After the floods, Seoul city officials vowed to phase out the Banjihas-style apartments. The World's Carol Hills speaks about the issue with housing policy expert K...

More than a billion people globally live in informal settlements, or slums. That often means poor-quality homes built in precarious locations, like floodplains or on steep slopes. As climate change drives more intense rains and storms, the UN finds that these are the urban populations most at risk from climate change. The World's environment correspondent reports from Karachi, Pakistan, on the pro...

The Nobel Prize Banquet is back in person this weekend for the first time since the pandemic began. The dinner menu takes months of planning, and special emphasis is put on the final course. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

Spain’s health care system has a great reputation. It’s known for having top-notch hospitals and well-trained physicians. But the system is starting to crumble from the inside. Patients are now facing unreasonable delays for all kinds of medical care. And doctors are getting out of Spain, finding jobs in other parts of Europe with better pay and better working conditions. From Barcelona, Gerry Had...

The names of a crater in the Gulf of Mexico, an Irish actor and the capital of Scotland were among the most-mispronounced words of 2022, according to The Associated Press, which published the list compiled by a Canadian company, The Captioning Group. Host Carol Hills and staff at The World newsroom talk through some hard-to-say words in the news such as Chicxulub, Domhnall Gleeson and Edinburgh.

Japan is going into partnership with the UK and Italy to develop its next-generation fighter jet.  The Mitsubishi F-X fighter jet will replace the aging fleet of F-2s that Japan previously developed with the United States. Host Carol Hills speaks with Becca Wasser of the Center for a New American Security about the impact of Japan's announcement.

The West has remained largely united in confronting Russia. However, there are signs the relationship between the US and the EU is beginning to fray. As The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, it comes down to allegations of war profiteering. 

You might have seen a version of the elasmosaurus before, in the animated Disney film, "Fantasia." But that was fiction. Now, we have some facts about these long-necked dinosaurs. Host Marco Werman tells us more. 

Russia is banned from this year's World Cup, and Ukraine didn't qualify. But soccer goes on in both countries, even in the midst of war. Levi Bridges reports on the battle for Crimea's soccer legacy, and Russia's attempt to create it's own leagues when excluded from world competitions. 

If you've been following our World Cup coverage over the past few weeks, you know we've been across what's happening on the field. And the big news off of it. Today, we just wanted to hear what it's like for a typical fan. For many, going to the global soccer tournament is a once in a lifetime opportunity. Get this: Manuel Rueda has been eight times. He and his father have been to every World Cup...