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Almost anyone who's lived abroad came back with stories of baffling or funny mismatched expectations. Massachusetts writer David Fromm shared his own experience of attempting a pro basketball career in Prague, despite not being very good at the sport. He had the audience laughing at GBH's storytelling project, Stories From The Stage.

Canada's iconic, historic retail chain Hudson's Bay is facing its demise. Hudson's Bay is still hoping for a financial lifeline, but its stores are likely to shut down and begin liquidation this week. Host Marco Werman has more.

The energy and auto giant BYD announced on Tuesday that the charging station for its new EVs will power up cars as fast as you can fill up a gas tank. It's still in the beta testing stage, but Wall Street is reacting to the news already. Host Marco Werman has more.

The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza says a series of Israeli airstrikes killed some 400 people overnight. This effectively ends the ceasefire the two sides had maintained. Gershon Baskin is an Israeli peace advocate and negotiator— he's been in touch with Hamas for years and follows Israeli politics closely. Host Marco Werman caught up with him on the phone as he was heading to the German Foreig...

Under President Donald Trump's orders, the US has struck the Houthis in an attempt to quell their attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The Houthis say the attack killed at least 53 people, including women and children, a number that has not been independently verified. Abdulghani al-Iryani is a senior researcher from the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies, and he joins The World's Marco...

"We have nothing to discuss with him." That's what Marco Rubio wrote on social media on Friday about South Africa's ambassador to the US, who was expelled from the country over the weekend. Rubio accused the ambassador of hating the US and Donald Trump. Host Marco Werman has more.

South Africa's largest city, Johannesburg, is running out of water. The loss of water due to mismanagement, theft and waste has taken its toll, and now shortages are a part of life. Reporter Elna Schutz has the story.

Travelers will someday be able to get in a car and drive from Germany to Denmark and back — through the Baltic Sea. That's thanks to the Fehmarn Belt Link, now under construction. Developers say it will fundamentally reshape travel in the European Union by drastically cutting commute times. But some question whether the benefits justify the risks. The World's transportation correspondent Jeremy Si...

A professional magician from Denmark had a dream of making people in North Korea laugh. So, he asked regime officials if he could come perform silly magic tricks and capture the audience reactions on film. To his surprise, they agreed. Traveling under close supervision, performer Jesper Grønkjær filmed North Koreans squealing with delight — kids mostly, but even uniformed guards. His video has rou...

President Donald Trump announced over the weekend that he is speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday to discuss what it would take to end the war in Ukraine. Trump says the fate of Ukrainian land and power plants is up for discussion as part of a deal he hopes to broker with Putin. Host Marco Werman has the details.

Since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion, many people in Ukraine's Jewish community have adopted a distinctly Jewish-Ukrainian identity. The war has inspired more national pride, a drive to speak Ukrainian, and a stronger feeling of patriotism. That's alongside an embrace of Jewish identity, as the Ukrainian Jewish community steps up to help military families and those who have been disp...

El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele says he’s imprisoned some 200 Venezuelans and 23 Salvador deportees from the US in "very good jails" at a fair price. Carlos Dada, co-founder and director of the Salvadoran digital news outlet El Faro tells The World’s Marco Werman that the men will join tens of thousands of others locked in a megaprison without legal representation.

When a tropical storm hit the shores of eastern Australia last week, it battered most of the beaches along a 300-mile stretch of coastline that draws millions of tourists each year. Now, local governments and volunteers are working to clean up the destruction. This rare storm is just the latest example of increasingly extreme weather events in Australia. Climate change has left the country often b...

The border between Lebanon and Syria has been tense for weeks, and now that tension has spilled into violence. Syria's interim government accused militants from Hezbollah in Lebanon of crossing into Syria this weekend and kidnapping and killing three Syrian soldiers. Hezbollah denied any involvement. Host Marco Werman has more.

When Bashar al-Assad fled Syria in December, it opened a new and uncertain chapter for the country,  and also for the millions of Syrians who have left over the past two decades. Today, we revisit the story of Syrian musician Samer Saem Eldahr who creates electronic sounds infused with arab classical music, under the name Hello Psychaleppo. In 2020, he spoke with Meklit Hadero for our series "Move...

A massive fire broke out at a nightclub in North Macedonia on Sunday and proved lethal, killing dozens. Families of the victims are blaming rampant corruption. Host Marco Werman speaks with Guy De Launey, a BBC correspondent in the Balkans, about the role corruption is believed to have played, as well as how North Macedonians are coping with the tragedy.

The price of an ounce — just one ounce — of gold has hit a new record: $3,000. This comes as the stock market faces a lot of volatility amid international trade wars and inflation. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Campbell Harvey, a professor of finance at Duke University, about why the gold market has traditionally been considered a safe haven for investors and how the commodity gets moved around...

In London, an unofficial memorial — right across from Parliament — has become a pilgrimage site for the grieving. More than 240,000 hand-painted hearts adorn a wall, each heart representing someone who died of COVID-19 in the UK. In a story originally broadcast in October, Leo Hornak reports that painting these hearts has brought healing and a sense of community to those who lost loved ones in the...

Today, millions of people in Southeast Asia and throughout the Indian diaspora celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of color. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler have more.

The destruction of a large Ukrainian dam across the Dnipro River in 2023 did more than flood Ukrainian villages. It also triggered a “toxic time bomb” of environmental harm, according to a new  study. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with river scientist Oleksandra Shumilova of the Leibniz Institute in Berlin, co-lead author of the study about the threat to the environment posed by thousands of tons of...

In the 1960s, France had around 200,000 cafes nationwide. It's down to 36,000 today. Most of the bistros that disappeared were in small, rural towns. Up until now, it's been virtually impossible to bring them back, mainly because of restrictive French liquor laws. But a bill in Parliament hopes to change that, and breathe some life back into thousands of small towns. The World's Gerry Hadden repor...

The ceasefire between the Kurdistan Workers Party, or the PKK, and Turkey doesn't just affect that country. It could have widespread effects also on Iraq and Syria. Kurdish Leaders and Kurds in those three countries explain what it means to no longer have this "Sword of Ankara" hanging over their heads. The World visited Sur, in the Diyarbakır Province of Turkey.

Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills list a few headlines in the news you might have missed.

Rising sea levels are a threat to coastal regions everywhere, but especially for islands. No example stands out more than the South Pacific nation of Tuvalu. However, Kathleen Schuster reports from our partners at Deutsche Welle, that people on Tuvalu aren't willing to give up their land yet.

Civil society groups in Peru are warning a new anti-NGO law in Peru could infringe on human rights in the country. The law, passed yesterday by the Peruvian Congress, bans NGOs from providing legal support of any kind to lawsuits against the state, including legal claims of human rights abuses. Supporters say it's targeting financial problems with NGOs, with oversight and transparency. Host Carol...