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Irish airline RyanAir, popular for its cheap city-hopping flights, has begun requiring a language test for passengers carrying South African passports. Only 13% of South Africans speak Afrikaans, a language that emerged from colonial Dutch. For many in the country, it's associated with the recent history of apartheid and colonial oppression under white minority rule. The move has been criticized b...

European classical music has always been a bastion for male musicians, and the gender disparities in the genre have continued as orchestras developed around the world. During the pandemic, when performances stopped, an orchestra in Bogotá, Colombia, developed a strategy to encourage women to succeed and rise to leadership positions in classical music. Manuel Rueda reports on the country's first al...

Farmers in sub-Saharan Africa grow their crops with 10% of the fertilizer used by the average farm globally. And with the fertilizer shortage sparked by the war in Ukraine, fears are mounting that hunger will be on the rise. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports from Accra, Ghana that the African Development Bank is implementing a $1.5 billion strategy to supply fertilizer to West Africa, though farmers...

In April, the UN refugee agency said it was on "high alert" for cases of human trafficking as Ukrainian refugees, 90% of them women and children, fled their country, often without much money, contacts, or a plan about where to go. In Romania, which had relatively high rates of trafficking and exploitation even before the war, nonprofit groups are working to keep refugees safe. The World's Carolyn...

Funding for global COVID-19 vaccination campaigns is sharply down. And there could be a steep price to pay. Atul Gawande, a renowned surgeon, writer and researcher who leads global health at USAID, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about plummeting resources to confront the pandemic.

In Myanmar, where a military junta has been in charge since early 2021, two pro-democracy activists have become household names. Phyo Zeya Thaw and Ko Jimmy have led protest marches. They’ve been befriended by American ambassadors. One even held a seat in parliament. But that was before the military seized power, forcing elected leaders into hiding. Now, both of the pro-democracy activists have be...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson survived a no-confidence vote in his leadership from his own party colleagues on Monday night. Conservative members of Parliament voted by 211 to 148 to keep Johnson as party leader. But the prime minister's popularity ratings remain at an all-time low and as The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports his future looks far from secure.

A diplomatic firestorm has engulfed India’s ruling party, the BJP, following the sanctioning of two party spokespersons over insulting remarks the pair are reported to have made towards Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. Host Marco Werman speaks with Sumit Ganguly, a professor of political science at Indiana University, about the Indian government's handling of the controversy and the response by gov...

Democracy in a central European country is under threat. Authoritarianism is spreading around the globe. And the planet itself seems to be in peril from unexplained floods. These very contemporary themes are actually from a 1936 work of science fiction by Czech author Karel Capek called “War of the Newts.” It has now been adapted into an audio drama. Marco Werman speaks with Ian Coss, co-creator o...

Sunday marked 75 years since the Marshall Plan was first outlined as a means to help Europe recover from World War II. Leaders including Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the UK's Boris Johnson have suggested creating a new "Marshall Plan" for Ukraine, even as Russia's invasion rages on. To unpack the significance of the Marshall Plan and what that would look like for Ukraine, host Marco Werman sp...

Iranian actress Zar Amir Ebrahimi won the Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival in France this year. She was awarded for her role in the movie “Holy Spider." But as The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports, Amir Ebrahimi’s path to the red carpet did not come easy.

Gunmen stormed a church in Nigeria over the weekend leaving 50 people dead and many more injured. The gunmen weren't immediately identified but experts pointed the attack as an example of intercommunal violence between Muslim and Christian groups. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Philip Obaji, a reporter with the Daily Beast, to get more details on the attack and what Nigerian officials plan to...

Pakistani Canadian Iman Vellani had an extraordinarily memorable last day of high school. Not only did she graduate, but she also got the call of her life: She got the role of Kamala Khan, Marvel's first Muslim superhero. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

In Ukraine, the most intense fighting is happening in the eastern part of the country in a region called the Donbas. Right now, Russia is trying to take control of a town called Severodonetsk as Ukraine pushes back. Over the weekend, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy visited troops on the front lines there and also spoke with families who are still being evacuated from danger zones. Host Mar...

Last December, Portugal granted asylum to hundreds of members of the Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) and their relatives. Among them were some of the most prominent Afghan musicians and their students. But six months later, many of them are still stuck in refugee centers and worried about their families being left behind. Francesca Berardi reports from Lisbon. 

Several Latin American and Caribbean heads of state, including the president of Mexico, aren’t showing up at the Los Angeles summit. The World’s Marco Werman talks with former Mexican Ambassador to the US Arturo Sarukhan about Latin America’s growing dissatisfaction with Washington’s approach to the region.

Soaring prices and a looming global food crisis spell added hardship in Africa because of the continent’s dependence on oil and grain imports from both Ukraine and Russia. But in francophone countries, this merely compounds an underlying problem that’s been around much longer: France’s domination of its 12 former colonies, especially around monetary policy. To many, the relationship known as Franç...

Ronnie Hawkins was born in Arkansas, but eventually called Canada home. His influence and impact on the music scene throughout Canada can't be overstated. He was huge. Ronnie Hawkins died on Sunday at the age of 87. Canadian folk singer Sylvia Tyson shares her memories of The Hawk with Marco Werman.

On Sunday, thousands of spectators in the English village of Brockworth will watch contestants run and tumble down a hill in pursuit of a 9-pound wheel of Double Gloucester cheese. Host Marco Werman tells the story.

At the invitation of President Vladimir Putin, the chairman of the African Union, Senegal's President Macky Sall, headed to Russia on Friday for talks about the impact of the war in Ukraine on African countries. Both Russia and Ukraine are major exporters of grain to the continent, accounting for over 40% of wheat imports to African countries in recent years, according to the UN. Host Marco Werman...

Two indigenous activists have won the Goldman Prize, which recognizes grassroots environmental activism. They successfully fought against gold mining on their ancestral lands. Tibisay Zea spoke with both of them, and has the story.

Pain is often at the center of a good comedy routine. In the UK, stand up comedian Angie Belcher wants to teach people how to use comedy to work through trauma. The World's Bianca Hillier reports. 

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has destroyed lots of the country's infrastructure. Housing, roads, train stations and government buildings have been destroyed by Russia's military. Now, the country's only seed bank is under threat as well. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Stefan Schmitz, executive director of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, about the seed bank and the challenges of securing i...

Exposure to steady, high noise levels can be dangerous to your health, and even deadly. Researchers say Barcelona is one of Europe's loudest cities, with construction noise, traffic and tourists all contributing to a constant, stressful din. Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona on the dangers of noise pollution and how city planners and law enforcement are trying to reduce the volume.

WNBA star Brittney Griner has been wrongfully detained in Russia on drug charges for more than three months. But her friends and family have only started to get vocal about her release. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.