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Britain said goodbye to Queen Elizabeth II in a televised ceremony witnessed by billions. The finely orchestrated one-hour service in Westminster Abbey was followed by two minutes of silence observed around the country. In attendance was US President Joe Biden and hundreds of heads-of-state. Rebecca Rosman was in the crowds and reports from London.

Early Monday morning the last members of the public waiting in line were admitted to walk past the queen's coffin. It marks the end of her relationship with the British public. As the sun rises, Leo Hornak meets the last of the commoners who will say goodbye.

The long-time director of the Fisk Jubilee Singers of Fisk University in Nashville has died. The ensemble, famous for the performance of spirituals, has toured the world for more than 150 years. Paul Kwami was the first director from Africa, and led the orchestra for almost 30 years. Colleen Phelps spoke with Kwami for a documentary last year, and has this remembrance of some of the highlights of...

Signs of US inflation remain stubborn. It's up 8.3% since last year. It’s looking likely that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates again, a move that could have ripple effects throughout the US economy and far beyond our borders. To discuss, The World's host Marco Werman talks to Julia Coronado, a former Federal Reserve economist and founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives.

An innovation to improve road safety for Swedish drivers has won the Safety Engineering prize in this year’s Ig Nobel awards, an annual event celebrating research that makes you laugh, then makes you think. Host Carol Hills tells about the winning invention, a moose crash-test dummy used to measure how cars crumple when they collide with large animals on the road.

Flooding in Pakistan this monsoon season inundated a third of the country, killed more than 1,500 people so far, and has left more than half a million homeless. A new scientific analysis released Thursday found that as much as a third of the rain that fell over southern Pakistan over a particularly intense five-day period was due to climate change.  The World's environment correspondent Carolyn Be...

Volunteer groups in Pakistan have been stepping up to aid those affected by the flooding. One volunteer, Taseer Tareen, who witnessed the first effects of the floods firsthand, shared videos to his traveling Facebook group, The Karakoram Club, that went viral. Since then, Tareen has been leading volunteer relief efforts in Pakistan with group members. Today he joins The World’s Marco Werman to tal...

EuroPride is a weeklong event held in a different European city each year. This year, Serbia's capital city of Belgrade is hosting. But the Serbian government and police force have worked to ban the final event — a Pride March — over the past couple of weeks. The March is supposed to take place Sept. 17. The World's Bianca Hillier has the latest.

A remembrance of Bob Ferrante. The former executive producer of The World died this week after a storied career that lasted more than 50 years.  

Warfare isn't just waged on the battlefield any more. Hackers from around the world are working together with Ukraine's Defense Ministry to target Russian infrastructure and websites. Dina Temple-Raston from the podcast, “Click Here,” meets the leader of the IT Army of Ukraine.

In the UK, grocery stores and florists are selling out of cut flowers as mourners pay their respects to the late Queen Elizabeth. Many of those flowers are coming from Turkey’s southern Isparta region, where a trade association estimates 1.5 million stems will be sent to the UK during the mourning period for the late Queen, double the usual number. Farmworkers there are in the height of a late sum...

They were pawns in a political stunt. A group of 50 migrants — most from Venezuela — landed in Martha's Vineyard this week after reportedly being offered flights to somewhere safe, where they could find work. But it was just the latest move in an ongoing effort by Republican politicians in Texas and Florida, to protest the Biden administration's immigration policy. The World's Carol Hills spoke wi...

Earlier this week, mass graves were discovered in the newly liberated town of Izium, in northeast Ukraine. The discovery was made after the retreat of the Russian military and so far more than 400 bodies have been discovered. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Liz Cookman, a reporter based in Ukraine who visited the site, about what she witnessed and what the remaining residents of the town had to...

On the eve of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, a group called Sandworm, deployed a piece of malware, targeting the computers running Ukraine's power grid. Had Russia's attack worked as planned, it would have left 2 million people in the dark. Dina Temple-Raston from the podcast, “Click Here,” reports on Russia's government-backed hacking group, which has had mixed results.

Roger Federer, the 20-time Grand Slam Champion and professional tennis player from Switzerland, announced his retirement on Thursday. The World's Bianca Hillier has the details on why he's stepping away and what legacy he's leaving behind.

The first climate lawsuit in Russia is now filed in their Supreme Court put forward by activists who say the government needs to take stronger action to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Lawyers argue that it's a matter of human rights, and filed the case just days before Russia ceases to be a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. The World's Marco Werman speaks to one of the lawyers for...

This week, girls in the province of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan went to the streets to protest. The Taliban had reopened their schools but ordered them shut again. Girls education in Afghanistan has become a sensitive topic since the Taliban came to power last year. They have closed down nearly all secondary schools for girls in the country. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

The US announced this week it was transferring $3.5 billion of Afghanistan's Central Bank money to a Swiss trust. The money would be used “for the benefit of the people of Afghanistan.” The World's Marco Werman spoke with Graeme Smith, a senior consultant with International Crisis Group, about what the money would be used for specifically and how it would help Afghanistan's economy. 

Dublin bars are packed this week with fans of the iconic American country star Garth Brooks. He has a huge following in Ireland, even among people who don't particularly like country music from the US. Emily Siner reports from the scene in Dublin, and turns to music history to find out more about the phenomenon.

A right-wing bloc of parties notched a narrow victory in Sweden's general elections, but it could have a major impact on the country's immigration policies. Tobias Hübinette is a lecturer and researcher at Karlstad University in Sweden and speaks with The World's Marco Werman about the significance of the change in government. 

The capital of southwestern China's Sichuan province has been in indefinite COVID-19 lockdown since the start of month. On Thursday, officials eased restrictions. Chengdu resident and theater director Elyse Ribbons describes the celebrations that followed to The World’s Marco Werman.

More than 6.8 million Venezuelans have fled their country since it fell into a political crisis and economic chaos eight years ago. This is one of the world’s largest exodus, comparable to that in Ukraine. It has also put a strain on the US immigration system. However, as The World’s Tibisay Zea reports, it hasn’t received a comparable amount of humanitarian aid. 

When two planes landed at the airport on Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts on Wednesday, neither the passengers nor airport officials knew why. Later the passengers, mostly from Venezuela, learned that they had been drawn into a political fight between southern governors and the federal government over immigration enforcement along the southern border. Host Marco Werman speaks with...

Three recent murders in Arab cities in Israel have drawn national condemnation. People living in these cities and communities say safety has become a huge concern, and that the Israeli government is not doing enough to address the underlying causes of violence and crime. Yoshi Fields reports from Tel Aviv.

Lebanese band Mashrou’ Leila has garnered an international fanbase since forming in 2008. But they've also received online harassment and threats of violence for supporting gender equality and the LGBTQ community. Now, the group is disbanding. The World's Marco Werman has more.