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Pakistan is entering a second wave of death and destruction from outbreaks of diseases, including malaria, dengue, diarrhea, scabies and other skin diseases, according to the UN. Host Marco Werman speaks with Catherine Weibel, communications chief for UNICEF in Pakistan, where health workers are trying to contain the outbreak of waterborne diseases among displaced families.

Trumpeter Ibrahim Maalouf was born in Lebanon and raised in France. He loves jazz, but doesn't call himself a jazz musician. Transformation is a key to his art. Host Marco Werman speaks to Ibrahim about his music, vision and story.

The cheating scandal that has rocked the chess world for weeks now continues to set off fireworks. The web site Chess.com has published an investigative report that accuses American grandmaster Hans Niemann of rampant cheating in online games. Host Marco Werman has the latest twist in the international chess scandal.

Just five days ago, Burkina Faso experienced its second coup in a year. One military leader, President Paul-Henri Damiba, was deposed by another: army Captain Ibrahim Traore. The reason: Damiba was deemed unable to deal with violence attributed to rebel fighters allied to both al-Qaeda and ISIS. The talk now is that the new government is going to seek help from Moscow. To put this in perspective,...

Paris transit authorities are phasing out the iconic paper rectangle. Better perhaps for the environment, but worse for the nostalgics out there. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.

Australia's environment is in a rapid decline, a 2,000-page report by Australia's State of the Environment team says. What's a risk? Mass animal extinction is one as well as a deteriorating ecosystem. Since the release of this report, the Australian government has jumped into action by aligning a plan to stop the extinction rate of threatened mammal species; but mammal extinction is the only dire...

Why are people joining anti-government protests in Iran? "For the sake of," is the title of a song that's becoming the anthem of the protests. It helps explain what's driving people to take to the streets.

Qatar is liberalizing its laws ahead of the FIFA World Cup in November. Questions remain, however, around what can happen around alcohol sales, public displays of affection, and crowd control. The World's Marco Werman spoke with global sports reporter Tariq Panja 

Dozens of museums in Europe and the US are joining forces to honor the 50th anniversary of Picasso’s death in 2023. This is fueling growing calls to expose the painter’s misogynistic tendencies and reshape the narrative surrounding him and his art.

An avalanche in the Himalayas in northern India has killed at least 10 people who were on a large mountaineering expedition. Rescue operations continue — there were 41 people on the expedition. One of those who died was Savita Kanswal, a 25-year-old rising star in the Indian mountaineering community. Sushmita Pathak reports from India on how it happened, and the devastated mountaineering community...

The Ebola outbreak rapidly spreading in Uganda has caused at least 29 deaths in the past two weeks. A vaccine hasn’t yet been tested for this strain. Doctors Without Borders nurse practitioner John Johnson tells The World’s Marco Werman about efforts to battle the virus.

A few years ago, Adrian Quesada formed the new band called Black Pumas that revived some of the psychedelic sounds created in places like Mexico, Colombia and Peru in the ’60s and ’70s. On his latest offering, Quesada has also layered other influences on top of the Latin psychedelic sound. There's hip-hop and the Tex-Mex sounds he grew up with living along the US-Mexico border, as well as an abidi...

Catalonia's iconic human tower competitions had to go on a hiatus during the pandemic. You can't social distance when people are climbing, one on top of another, to make “castells” that reach three stories high. But this weekend, the biggest castell competitions returned to Catalonia after a four-year hiatus. Reporter Alan Ruiz Terol takes us to this weekend's competition in Tarragona.

The number of college-educated workers is shrinking, and baby boomers are retiring quicker than previous estimates. To meet high-skilled workforce demands in industries such as healthcare and IT, the US will need to rely more on immigrants. From Boston, Kirk Carapezza reports that analysts warn US economic growth will slow unless national policies change.

A week ago today, Hurricane Ian slammed into Cuba. Since then, authorities there have had difficulty restoring power and social stability. From Havana, political activist Boris Gonzalez Arenas tells The World’s host Carolyn Beeler that Cuban authorities’ inability to restore power has turned citizens against their government.

Living through the trauma of the war in Ukraine has taken an immeasurable toll on people there. Soldiers and civilians alike have been through unspeakable horrors. The World's Daniel Ofman speaks with a few Ukrainians who are helping people process these traumas.

Jargon can quickly clog up government documents, making vital information hard to find and difficult to understand. Lawmakers in New Zealand are trying to clear things up with a bill that would require clear, concise communication from the government. The World's Bianca Hillier has the details.

The OPEC+ nations — including the Persian Gulf States and Russia — are meeting on Wednesday in Vienna, with the price of oil front and center on the agenda. Crude prices have fallen in recent months over concerns in terms of demand amid a slowdown in the global economy. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings in Washington...

Family farms in Turkey are turning to Instagram to sell their products directly to consumers, where videos of bucolic scenery and traditional cooking garner hundreds of thousands of followers. Home cooks can order gallons of tomato paste, kilos of fresh cheese and jugs of olive oil from all over the country, delivered in a matter of days. Fans say it's a bit more expensive than the grocery store,...

The US and its NATO allies are on high alert over the possibility of Russia using a nuclear weapon. Moscow, however, has dismissed the claims of a nuclear threat as "rhetoric.” The World's host Carolyn Beeler spoke with Joe Cirincione, a national security analyst, about the kind of a nuclear weapon that could be used and the consequences that could ensue.

North Korea launched a missile over Japan this morning, for the first time since 2017. Alerts went off in Tokyo and other northern cities at 7:30 a.m., and there was fear and confusion about how to take cover. From Tokyo, reporter Thisanka Siripala tells host Carolyn Beeler about the reaction to the missile launch, and how Japanese leaders are responding.

A company that has received billions of dollars in green energy subsidies, Drax, is cutting down environmentally important forests, a BBC Panorama investigation has found. Host Carolyn Beeler explains this latest bump in the road for the United Kingdom's green energy program.

The Common Loon is an icon of the woods and lakes of the upper Midwest and southern Canada. Its haunting cry is a hallmark of the North American wilderness. And it’s in trouble — but the mysteries behind its decline cannot be solved by one nation or state. Emily Haavik investigates.

Queen Margrethe II announced last week that the four children of her son Prince Joachim will lose their royal titles. While the palace said the reasoning was to allow her grandchildren the chance to “shape their own existence,” there's a wider trend among European monarchies to make the royal households smaller, as Danish historian Lars Hovbakke Sørensen told The World's Carolyn Beeler. 

More than 10,000 Russians are streaming across the border and into neighboring Georgia every day to escape being drafted. The influx is exacerbating tensions between the different language speakers going back to Soviet times. In the 1970s, Moscow banned the teaching of Georgian. Patrick Cox reports on the growing tensions from Tbilisi.