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Officials in the United Kingdom issued a "red warning" to the public, reminding people to take precautions to stay safe in the sweltering heat. Parts of Europe are seeing wildfires burn out of control. But extreme weather is hitting China too, where the city of Shanghai just saw its hottest temperatures in 150 years. The World's Shanghai correspondent Rebecca Kanthor speaks with host Marco Werman...

Two people in Ghana have died from what is now confirmed to be the highly infectious Marburg virus. The deaths from the Ebola-related virus were confirmed by the World Health Organization on Sunday. The World's host Marco Werman spoke to Dr. Colleen Kraft, an infectious disease physician at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, about what concern there is about this virus. 

The chief of Israel's armed forces visited Morocco this week. The visit was seen as a further warming of relations between the two countries after having normalized relations two years ago. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Intissar Fakir, a senior fellow with the Middle East Institute, about what's behind the growing ties and how each side benefits. 

Host Marco Werman remembers the work of Swedish-born pop artist Claes Oldenburg who died in New York on Monday — from a bathtub replica in vinyl to giant French fries. It was all about having fun.

Since the beginning of President Jair Bolsonaro’s tenure in office, one member of his Cabinet has championed the evangelical cause above all the rest. That would be Minister of Human Rights, Women and Family Damares Alves. She has led a sometimes silent, sometimes vocal campaign to push policy priorities favored by evangelical conservatives. Alves is a former preacher who, on the day she was sworn...

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with his Iranian counterpart, Ebrahim Raisi, and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Tehran on Tuesday. It's Putin's first visit outside the former Soviet Union since the invasion of Ukraine, and comes amid US warnings that Russia is set to receive shipments of drones from Iran. The trio is set to discuss the war in Syria and the so-called Astana peace proce...

Brazil has the largest Catholic population in the world. But Protestant evangelicals are a fast-growing segment of the country. They make up roughly a third of Brazil today. And they’re expected to become the majority in less than a generation. Politically, Jair Bolsonaro is their candidate. The current president has promoted policy priorities favored by evangelicals, and he’s hoping to benefit fr...

A new study from Harvard University says human baby talk — human adult to infant — is similar across 21 languages and six continents. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Samuel Mehr, a senior scientist with the Haskins Laboratories at Yale University, and one of the authors of the study, about what this means for human speech and how it evolved.

Leaders from Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have insisted that men and women must be separated from one another, even in some public spaces. Even some secular Israelis say that has an upside, because it will help integrate ultra-Orthodox Jews into mainstream society. But others say it's a slippery slope that will lead to increasingly harsh rules that ultimately amount to discrimination a...

Data show that the number of public protests around the world has increased over the last decade, with exception of the time period during the pandemic. The World’s Marco Werman interviews political scientist David Clark who built the Mass Mobilization Project dataset to quantify and understand protests around the globe.

Ukraine’s president removed the head of the country’s security services and its prosecutor general on Sunday, saying he’d lost faith in the officials’ ability to run their offices. Officials who work under the spy chief and the prosecutor general have been accused of collaborating with Russia. The World’s Marco Werman speaks with journalist Volodymyr Solohub.

Sri Lanka is experiencing its worst political and economic crises in history. But despite the turmoil, Sri Lankans have continued to follow a series of matches between their national team and Australia. Sushmita Pathak reports that watching cricket has become a respite from the chaos in Sri Lanka. 

Climate change is fueling more destructive natural disasters. Developing nations say they need financial help to rebuild after storms, or move people off of unlivable land. Richer nations, like the US and EU, are the most responsible for a warming climate, but have resisted contributing to a specific fund for "loss and damage,” as it's called in the UN. This topic has been discussed at UN climate...

Wildfires continue to spread in Spain, France and Portugal, and also Morocco. Reporter Gerry Hadden tells the story through the voices of people who have been evacuated from their homes across the region.

Much of Europe is withering under a brutal, record-breaking heat wave. Wildfires across Spain, Greece, and Portugal have forced thousands of people to flee their homes. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World's Orla Barry in the usually temperate United Kingdom, which may experience temperatures of up to 104 degrees Fahrenheit in the next 24 hours.

Host Marco Werman introduces us to newly remastered sounds from 1970s Sao Tome and Principe and the band Africa Negra. The islands like the music of this ensemble have their own streak of rebellion.

A zoo in Kyiv, Ukraine, was under occupation for more than a month at the beginning of the war. No animals died but staff struggled to feed and keep the animals warm. Russian forces are now gone ,but the zoo has lost a dozen animals to stress. Ashley Westerman reports that zoos around Ukraine are struggling to keep animals healthy and safe, when many aren't making enough money to cover costs.

For the song of the summer series, in India, the summer soundtrack features a toe-tapping tune about the pasoori — or difficulties — of unrequited love and distance. The song “Pasoori” is from Pakistan but has struck a chord around the world, and nowhere as much as in India reports Chhavi Sachdev in Mumbai.

Shootings, stabbings, murder, attempted murder. These have unfortunately become common in Brazilian politics in recent years. Just this week, an official from the leftist Workers Party was killed during his birthday party, allegedly by a supporter of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro. With elections just months away, host Marco Werman speaks with Bruno Langeani, with the Instituto Sou da Paz, in...

The euro may be having its worst week in over 20 years, but that didn't stop the bloc from inviting a new country to join the eurozone. EU finance ministers agreed this week to allow Croatia to adopt the single currency. The Balkan state is set to ditch the Croatian Kuna beginning this January. But as The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports, not all Croatians are so keen to switch to t...

Sargassum is a brown seaweed that's been wreaking havoc in the Caribbean over the last decade, and in particular, along Mexico’s Cancun and Mayan Riviera beaches. It started appearing a decade ago and has exploded in recent years, due to a combination of fertilizer runoff, warmer temperatures, and deforestation. More than 60,000 tons of the algae washed up on Mexico’s Caribbean beaches in mid-May...

Whether President Joe Biden shakes the hands of world leaders on his Middle East trip is getting a fair amount of attention. And as Gerry Hadden reports, there's a long history of diplomatic initiatives whose fate hung on a handshake.

Gotabaya Rajapaksa, president of Sri Lanka and member of the Rajapaksa political dynasty, resigned Friday after fleeing the country. His resignation is the culmination of months of growing protests in Sri Lanka against his administration's handling of the country's economic crisis, which has left many across the island nation without fuel and with food insecurity. As the country now looks toward f...

President Joe Biden will conclude his trip to the Middle East this weekend. Despite Biden's attempts to disengage from the region and focus US efforts elsewhere, the US keeps coming back. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Dalia Dassa Kaye, a senior fellow with UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations, about how the US can constructively engage in the region.   

President Joe Biden is in Saudi Arabia on Friday for the first time since he took office. He is meeting with King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman. Biden said in the past that he’d make the Kingdom “the pariah that it is.” But as gas prices skyrocketed, he changed his tune. Can this visit salvage the decadesold US-Saudi alliance? The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.