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Skillibeng, Buju Banton, Capleton, Bounty Killer, and Sizzla are all major artists in Jamaica. Now, they've all come together for an epic collaboration with DJ Khaled. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

Decades after the last person stepped foot on the moon in 1972, NASA is attempting to do it again. Under NASA’s Artemis program, an uncrewed space launch, Artemis 1, is set to take off tomorrow. Nujoud Merancy, chief of NASA’s Exploration and Planning Office, talks to The World’s host Carol Hills about the importance of this mission and how it will eventually bring the first woman and first person...

On the surface, the one-day Berlin Hummus Festival looks like a mere celebration of a much-loved side dish. But the humble legume brings together thousands of people, regardless of their religious or political backgrounds. Israelis, Palestinians, war refugees from Syria and, of course, Germans, revel in this gathering, all in defiance of gloomy Middle East headlines. Alexa Dvorson reports from Ber...

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese politician and Nobel laureate, was found guilty by the country’s military junta of election fraud today. The World’s Host Carol Hills updates us on the story of the 77-year-old former leader of Myanmar, who was arrested in 2021. She is now the country's most-famous prisoner, facing a 20 year prison term.

Cambodian officials say the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York has more than 45 pieces of stolen Khmer art in its collection. Cambodia points to the testimony of a reformed temple looter and documents recovered from an art trafficker's computer as proof. The museum says it has yet to see the evidence. The World's Sarah Birnbaum has the story.

The book, "The Backstreets: A Novel from Xinjiang," was written by Perhat Tursun, a Uyghur writer who disappeared in 2018, and is now serving a 16-year prison sentence at an unknown prison in China. The book has just been published in English for the first time. One of the book's translators, Darren Byler, is a Uyghur scholar and teacher at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. He discusses...

Mariano Rafael Grossi, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s safety inspection at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, returns to Vienna today. He's announced that members of the IAEA team will stay behind at Zaporizhzhia. Nickolas Roth, the senior director of nuclear materials security at the Nuclear Threat Initiative, talks to The World’s host Carol Hills about areas o...

Polls show that Giorgia Meloni, whose Brother of Italy party has neo-fascist roots, is likely to become the country's next prime minister. The anti-EU, anti-immigration and anti-Islam politician once said that dictator Mussolini did some great things. The World's Orla Barry reports on what a Meloni win could look like.

Argentina's vice president, Christina Fernandez de Kirchner, survived an assassination attempt yesterday in the capital Buenos Aires. The would-be assassin's gun jammed as he pulled the trigger. Authorities have arrested 35-year-old Brazilian national, Fernando Andre Sabag Montiel. The World's host Carol Hills spoke with Natalio Cosoy, an Argentinine journalist, about the details surrounding the a...

A St. Louis woman recently discovered that her month had a secret past as a rock star in Vietnam. Their family fled Saigon almost 50 years ago, and, for decades, her mother never spoke of her recordings and intense following. But now, a new album has been released with the recordings that have been dug up from the 1960s and 1970s. As Emily Woodbury reports from St. Louis, discovering her mother's...

There's a new revelation in the case of a British schoolgirl accused of joining ISIS and it implicates Canada. Shamima Begum was a teenager when she left the UK for Syria in 2015. The British government then accused her of joining the terrorist group, and stripped her of her citizenship. But a new book about Begum says a spy for Canada's intelligence service helped smuggle Begum into Syria. And it...

Ahmad Fanoos is one of Afghanistan’s most famous musicians. After the Taliban reclaimed power last year, music was banned and Fanoos received several death threats. Eventually, he and other family members were able to be airlifted out. This fall, Ahmad Fanoos and his sons, who are also musicians, will have the chance to perform together in the United States with the help of the organization Heart...

Russia continues its threats to cut off a major German source of energy — the Nordstream 1 pipeline. The near future of energy security in Germany is up in the air, which has some German residents wondering whether there will be enough oil and gas to keep homes warm this winter. To discuss, host Carol Hills speaks to Stuttgart resident Jonathan Spitz about how some Germans are — and aren't — prepa...

Leaving a small carbon footprint is important to many people. But a new coffin from the Dutch company Loop takes things one step further. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

Experts warn that the 70-day heat wave in China may have long-term effects as the country continues to struggle with energy shortages, crop failures and now the threat of flooding. Beijing's zero-COVID-19 policies are also adding to the stress. The World's Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai on how people are coping.

In Brazil’s Amazon forest, the last known member of an isolated tribe has been found dead, according to Brazilian officials. The uncontacted member, known as “Man of the Hole,” distrusted outsiders and ignored all aid efforts from the government and human rights groups over the years. His death marks Brazil’s first recorded disappearance of “uncontacted” tribes, leaving many questions about protec...

Sept. 1 marks the first day of school across Ukraine. The day is akin to a national holiday — a celebration of students and teachers. This year though, schools across the country are trying to figure out how to manage the academic year while the country remains at war. In Lviv, only schools with large enough bomb shelters for all their students will open up for in person classes. Administrators ar...

The UN Human Rights Commission released a long-awaited report detailing China's misuse of terrorism laws to subjugate Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang Province. Peter Irwin of the Uyghur Human Rights Project updates host Carol Hills about the UN report's findings, the Chinese government's response, and how Uyghurs are responding to its release.

The western Ukrainian city of Lviv has long been famous for its rich history and cultural treasures. Since the Russian invasion began, the city has also largely been spared from Russian attacks. And it's become a relative safe haven for Ukraine's government, businesses, and tens of thousands of civilians who've fled the fighting farther east. Lviv's mayor, Andriy Sadovyi, says he hasn't taken a da...

Over 50 people adopted from South Korea by Danish parents have cosigned an application to South Korea's Truth and Reconciliation Commission to investigate abuses in the country's adoption system going back to the 1960s. The World's Carol Hills spoke to Peter Knudsen, a spokesperson for the Danish Korean Rights Group, which organized the application. He’s also an adoptee himself.

As Europe looks to the Arctic for energy, the Indigenous Sami people say they don't want the massive wind farms that are planned on their shrinking lands. They say the wind turbines interfere with their reindeer herds and livelihoods. Reporter Katie Toth of the podcast “Things That Go Boom” reports on the struggle between the Sami and the global demand for energy.

This summer, we've been exploring some of the top songs around the world. But in Africa, it's not just one song that's been popular — it's a whole genre called Afrobeats. The World's Africa correspondent, Halima Gikandi, reports on how Afrobeats popularity is growing across the world. 

Giant tortoises, weighing in at more than 500 pounds, are treasured members of the biodiverse Galápagos Islands, where their small population is fiercely protected. This week, four were found dead in the Galápagos National Park. Authorities in Ecuador are investigating what happened. The World's Carol Hills speaks to conservation biologist James Gibbs, who is vice president of the Galápagos Conser...

Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms were lauded by the West. But in Russia, Gorbachev is blamed for bringing about economic collapse, political upheaval and the implosion of the Soviet Union. Host Carol Hills speaks with Dmitri Alperovitch, head of the Silverado Policy Accelerator, a Washington, DC, think tank, about Russian views on Gorbachev and what they reveal about his legacy.

In the waning days of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev’s visions of perestroika and glasnost, as well as the global arms control agreements he brokered, won him accolades in the West. He changed the course of world events, as former National Security Council official Fiona Hill tells host Carol Hills.