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Canada has one of the best women's soccer teams in the world, but no professional women’s soccer league. Women have been pushing for a league for years. On Dec. 6, it was announced that Diana Matheson, the midfielder of the Canadian team, and Christine Sinclair, the captain, are starting a new women's league with eight teams. Anita Elash reports from Toronto on the state of womens' soccer in Canad...

For the second straight day, Ukrainian missiles fired from Soviet-era drones are landing deep inside Russia. It's a sign that Kyiv is willing to risk widening the war that has raged since February. Ukraine is also stepping up development of its own long-range combat drones. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Russia scholar Mark Galeotti, author of the new book “Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukr...

Experiments show that some varieties of rice and wheat have lower protein and vitamin contents when grown under elevated carbon dioxide concentrations. Kristie Ebi, a professor in the Center for Health and the Global Environment at the University of Washington, explains this could cause more anemia, stunting and nutrient deficiencies in the future. 

A new variety of durum wheat has been developed to withstand hotter, drier conditions. The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas, with support from the Crop Trust, developed it as part of an initiative to develop new breeds of wheat combined with wild grains. Filippo Bassi, senior scientist at ICARDA, told Marco Werman about the importance of maintaining biodiversity in c...

Around 10,000 troops have surrounded Soyapango, one of the biggest cities in in El Salvador, as part of a massive crackdown on gangs, President Nayib Bukele has announced. The World's Tibisay Zea has more. 

Activists in Iran are calling for three days of strikes and demonstrations. Protests have swept the country since the death of Mahsa Aminim in police custody in September. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with Ali Vaez, the International Crisis Group’s Iran project director, about the continuing unrest.

The US employs hundreds of thousands of tech workers who hold H1-B visas. They can stay in the country as long as they keep their jobs. Recent layoffs, however, mean that thousands are now scrambling to find new work, or they will have to leave. KQED's Rachael Myrow reports it's a tough time for visa holders to find a new job.

Construction of 133 new radio telescopes in Carnarvon, South Africa, has begun. They are part of a project called Square Kilometer Array, which seeks to observe the phenomena of outer space in greater detail and in greater breadth. The World's Marco Werman talks to Dr Jakob van der Eijnden, a research fellow from the MeerKAT research group at Oxford University's astrophysics department in Britain,...

One in 10 people in Britain have quit their jobs because of menopause, according to Fawcett Society, a leading women's rights charity in the UK. Britain’s National Health Service, (NHS) is introducing new guidelines including flexible working hours to help people deal with distressing menopause symptoms. But health campaigners say there's still a long way go to raise awareness around the issue. Th...

Sudan's military government has come to an agreement with the main pro-democracy group to ease the country back into civilian-led rule. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Khuloud Khair about a potential timeline for the transition as well as why some pro-democracy groups have not signed on to the agreement.

The US has chosen its word of the year. Many other countries have done the same. Naturally, in this great big world, host Marco Werman says, there's not much agreement, but all the selections reveal a lot about the country where they come from.

The 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup has hit the knockout rounds of the tournament. The US, Australia, Poland and Senegal are among the teams heading home after losing their matches over the weekend. The World's Bianca Hillier has been watching the games and fills in host Marco Werman with the latest.

Recent protests against China's strict zero-COVID policy took a lot of people by surprise. But they might have worked. The Chinese government is now taking steps to ease the rules around the pandemic lockdowns that sparked so much public frustration. The World's Asia correspondent Patrick Winn has been following the story and he speaks with host Marco Werman. 

The classic Christmas song “Carol of the Bells” is actually an old Ukrainian folk song. A century ago, a Ukrainian choir on a mission to build support for the fledgling nation sang the song at Carnegie Hall, and the popularity took off from there. Lydia Tomkiw reports from New York City on a Ukrainian children's choir performing the song this weekend as part of a centennial concert, marking the an...

Ngando Pickett has been cheering on the Indomitable Lions, Cameron's national football team, for 40 years. He has become a fixture in the stands at all matches, home and away. And this year's Men's World Cup in Qatar is no exception. Host Marco Werman has the details.

A $200 million luxury yacht owned by Ukrainian politician Viktor Medvedchuk, an oligarch and friend of Vladimir Putin, is to be sold at auction after its seizure in Croatia earlier this year. Host Carol Hills tells the story of the 92.5-meter superyacht, Royal Romance. 

A new kind of public-private partnership has emerged in Ukraine to protect critical infrastructure from cyberattacks. Dina Temple-Raston, of the podcast “Click Here,” tells the story of how tech companies have banded together to work with the Ukrainian government.

Amid a crackdown on dissent spurred by protests in China against the country's COVID-zero lockdowns, the authorities have trained their sights on Chinese digital life more than ever before. Currently, they are trying to bar citizens from using Virtual Private Networks, or VPNs, which scramble a user's internet traffic from server to server so they can break past China's so-called "Great Firewall"...

A new report by Human Rights Watch says most of the children who were repatriated from detention camps for ISIS suspects and their families in northern Syria and Iraq are thriving in their home countries. These children were either born in ISIS territories or they were taken there by their parents or relatives. The World's Shirin Jaafari discusses the report's findings with host Marco Werman.

The Syrian Democratic Forces, a majority Kurdish armed group, has announced it has ceased cooperation with the US military in Syria. The announcement comes after the group said it would cease fighting ISIS following threats of a Turkish invasion of the region under their control. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Charles Lister, director of the Syria program at the Middle East Institute, about th...

French President Emmanuel Macron touched down in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Friday, the first French president to visit the former French colony in almost 50 years. Host Carol Hills reports Macron hopes to bolster the future of the French language in Louisiana.

A lucrative, free-trade deal with the US would be one of the big bonuses of leaving the European Union, pro-Brexit campaigners told the British public before the 2016 referendum. Six years later, Britain is in recession, inflation is at a 40-year high and that lucrative trade appears further away than ever. So, what went wrong? The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Britain's Prince William and Princess Catherine are in Boston on Friday to present the second-annual Earthshot prize awarded to innovators around the world working to save nature and combat global warming. Over a million dollars will be awarded to five different winners. The World's Carol Hills is joined by Rachel Kyte, dean of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. Kyte is...

UNICEF estimates that roughly 200 million women and girls across the globe have been subjected to female genital mutilation. In The Gambia, the practice was outlawed in 2015, a sign that decadeslong efforts to put an end to the practice are working. But, as Alexa Dvorson reports from The Gambia, changing laws is one thing; changing minds is much harder.

Alcohol sales and consumption is heavily regulated in Qatar. The host of this year's Men's World Cup was supposed to offer beer in the stadiums, but days before the opening match, FIFA announced a beer ban. One fan stepped in with the Qatar Alcohol Map to show attendees where to legally quench their thirst before heading to the stadiums. Host Marco Werman has the story.