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Australia's Ash Barty is a three-time Grand Slam champion. Today, at age 25, she announced her retirement from professional tennis, saying it's important that she gets "to enjoy the next phase of [her] life as Ash Barty the person, not Ash Barty the athlete." The World's Bianca Hillier shares the details with host Marco Werman.

Today was supposed to be the first day of school in Afghanistan. But the Taliban government decided against allowing girls’ secondary school education, leaving millions of girls without an education. The World's host Marco Werman spoke with Mahbouba Seraj, a women's rights activist and founder of the Afghan Women's Network, about the decision and the impact it's having on the girls.

Although it is out-matched and out-gunned, Ukraine’s military has denied Russia a quick victory. Still, as the war grinds on, Moscow has a significant arsenal to draw upon. Retired US Army general David Petraeus talks with The World’s Marco Werman about where things stand on the battlefield.

As Sri Lanka is in a countdown this year toward repaying over $4 billion in debt that it can't afford to pay, China announced Monday that it might offer a lifeline of $2.5 billion in loans and buyer's credit. Host Marco Werman spoke with Deep Pal, a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, to ask what kind of strings might be attached to this lifeline.

Madeleine Albright, the first female US secretary of state, died today at age of 85. She pushed to expand NATO, reduce the spread of nuclear weapons and was a champion for human rights and democracy across the globe. In a 2018 interview with The World’s Carol Hills, Albright described the worries that kept her up at night.

Macron has surged in the polls ever since the start of Russia's invasion into Ukraine. He's now polling to take 30.5% of the vote in the first round. What’s behind his popularity? The World’s Rebecca Rosman reports.

For years now, Russia's power structure has been largely dependent on one person: Vladimir Putin. He calls the shots. But since the start of Russia's war against Ukraine, there's been a lot of speculation around Putin's inner circle. Who's in and who's out? And what information is Putin getting during this war? Host Marco Werman speaks with Russian investigative reporter Andrei Soldatov. He's also...

Sweden and Finland have been militarily neutral for decades. But Russia's invasion of Ukraine is upsetting that long-held policy. The majority of citizens in both Nordic countries now say the two nations should join NATO, despite an overt threat from Russia against doing so. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

The small post-Soviet state of Moldova, on the southwestern border of Ukraine, is not directly involved in the war next door. But Moldovans are already feeling the impact of Russia's invasion. Thousands of Ukrainian refugees have crossed into Moldova. Most are moving further west, into the European Union member state of Romania and beyond. But the refugee crisis, the disruption of trade in the reg...

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award was announced on Tuesday. With a prize of half a million dollars, it’s one of the biggest literary prizes in the world. This year, it went to Swedish illustrator Eva Lindström. The award has been recognizing international children’s authors since 2002, and this time drew submissions from 71 countries, ranging from Colombia to Iran to South Korea. As The World's L...

A new survey of Valencian chefs in Spains has declared there is no seafood in Paella. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Sarah Jay, an expert in Paella and owner of paellapans.com , about the controversy around paella and how she thinks it should be made.

Climate change has never been an election issue in Philippine elections before. But election watchers say the 2022 campaign season is different. Climate change and renewable energy are being talked out in campaign speeches, media interviews and candidates' platforms.  As Ashley Westerman reports, activists are hopeful this means whoever ends up winning the presidency after elections in May will ma...

The US is forming a “Pacific NATO” to encircle China just as the US and Europe encircles Russia. So say Chinese officials who contend this “perverse” strategy is “doomed to fail.” They are referring to the Quad, a loosely defined military grouping of the US, Japan, Australia and India. It’s a far cry from NATO, an ironclad treaty with big budgets and clear red lines. But depending on the perspecti...

Prince William and Kate Middleton’s royal visit to Jamaica is being overshadowed by an open letter published on Monday signed by 100 prominent Jamaicans asking the couple to just “sey yuh sorry!” for Britain's colonial past. There was also a protest on Tuesday in advance of their arrival, calling for slavery reparations from Britain. Marco Werman speaks with the person who wrote the open letter to...

For countries in the Middle East that rely on food imports from Ukraine, the war has spelled chaos and uncertainty. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the impact of food supplies and what countries are doing to mitigate the problem.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accused Ukraine of possessing chemical and biological weapons. US President Joe Biden says that means Putin is likely considering using those weapons in Ukraine. Marco Werman interviews Hanna Notte of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation about how the West will address the threat diplomatically.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has long demanded that NATO remove its missile defense systems from Poland and Romania. Their presence is the reason he gives for invading Ukraine. But the Pentagon claims the systems can only intercept missiles, not fire them. The World's Durrie Bouscaren visits the Romanian town of Deveselu, and the residents who fear they could end up on the front lines.

In honor of the Persian new year of Nowruz, we give a listen to a song recorded for the holiday by the Iranian Canadian ensemble Niyaz, "Aasemoone Aabi" or "blue sky."

Russian President Vladimir Putin's lie about “denazification” in Ukraine has a deeper historical context. Marco Werman interviews historian Benjamin Nathans about how his propaganda draws on the past. Nathans is a historian at the University of Pennsylvania who can help explain this.

Ukrainian poet Iya Kiva is no stranger to war. In 2014, she had to flee her hometown of Donetsk. And now, she is a war refugee again. The World's Sarah Birnbaum interviews Kiva about war, loss and trauma. 

Residents of the southern Ukrainian port city of Mariupol are melting snow to collect water and cooking dwindling food supplies on open fires. Dmytro Gurin is a member of parliament for Kyiv who grew up in Mariupol and has been in touch with friends and relatives there. He tells The World’s Marco Werman that Russian troops are attempting to starve the city’s residents to get leverage in the war.

As countries around the world rush to source energy supplies from outside of Russia, UN Secretary-General António Guterres warns that filling the gap with coal, oil or gas from elsewhere could doom global efforts to get climate change in check. "As major economies pursue an all of the above strategy to replace Russian fossil fuels," Guterres said in a video speech on Monday, "short-term measures m...

In the early months of the pandemic, we reported on the sustainable shifts in the works, with more bike lanes and walking space in Milan, and boosts to the "no-fly movement" in Scandinavia. President Joe Biden and Prime Minister Boris Johnson both called to "build back better" toward sustainability. And billions of stimulus funds could have been invested to speed up the green transition. Has that...

An increasing number of Russians and Ukrainians are traveling to touristic destinations in Mexico, buying cheap cars and driving to Tijuana to seek asylum in the United States. It's a pattern that started months before Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, and has shown disparate treatment of asylum seekers depending on nationality, according to immigration experts. Tibisay Zea has the story.

When Joe Biden ran for president, he made a promise: cancel Title 42, the Trump-era policy that activated a health code from 1944 that allows officials to turn away asylum-seekers at land border crossings into the US. As Max Rivlin-Nadler reports, there's a growing chorus of voices calling on President Biden to live up to his promise.