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Ghana is one of the leading countries in Africa moving towards cashless transactions. Mobile money platforms have become very popular there, where people transfer money to each other using their cellphones. But as Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports, a new tax proposed by the government could slow the use of these platforms, and, according to critics, hurt small businesses.

Jan. 26 is officially Australia Day but to Indigenous communities there, it's better known as Invasion Day. Fifty years ago on Australia Day, activists erected an Aboriginal Embassy in a tent opposite Australia's Parliament building in Canberra to illustrate their lack of recognition or agency by the Australian government. It grew into a national and even international event and a turning point fo...

In Paris on Wednesday, French diplomats hosted talks with their counterparts from Germany, Russia and Ukraine. The meeting was an attempt to calm tensions over Moscow's massive military buildup along its border with Ukraine. The foreign ministers from France and Germany are expected to travel to Kyiv in a few days, to show their solidarity with Ukraine. But as our Europe correspondent Orla Barry r...

The ongoing trial of a sailing coach who allegedly raped an 11-year-old in 2010 has catalyzed demands for change in Greece. Athens-based attorney Ioanna Stentoumi talks with The World’s Marco Werman about why Greece has lagged behind other EU nations in holding perpetrators accountable for sexual abuse.

Two years in, the pandemic is far from over. Now is not the time for neglect, despite how tired we all may feel. That’s the big message this week from global health leaders as omicron spreads around the world. At the same time, as The World’s Elana Gordon reports, a path exists to make this virus a lot more manageable in the months to come.

Former Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz joins the baseball Hall of Fame this week, and his home country the Dominican Republic is celebrating. Ortiz is the fourth Dominican-born player to enter the Hall of Fame. Host Marco Werman has reactions from the country.

A boat capsized between the Bahamas and Florida over the weekend, and dozens of people who were on board are now missing. A US Coast Guard spokesperson says they believe this is a case of human smuggling. The straits of Florida have a long history of being a treacherous migration route for people leaving Latin America and the Caribbean hoping to make it to the shores of the United States. To discu...

ISIS fighters have carried out deadly, sophisticated attacks on a prison in northeast Syria since last Thursday. The prison holds hundreds of ISIS members, among them children who were brought to the “caliphate" by their parents. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the children’s condition.

Host Marco Werman tells us about the latest single by Portuguese duo Bandua, with a brief detour to the source of the music: the medieval Iberian peninsula.

Omicron is hitting Brazil hard, with record-high COVID-19 numbers. Indigenous communities throughout the country were hit hard by previous surges, but now, with the vaccine available, uptake is still a struggle in those same places. Michael Fox reports on why some Indigenous communities are taking a long time to get vaccinated, and struggling with this new coronavirus wave.

Drought and the drilling of illegal wells have pushed Lake Tuz to near extinction. The lake is Turkey's second-largest, located near Aksaray. Wildlife photographer  Fahri Tunc has been documenting the impact on flamingos and is mounting his own campaign to save the lake for the beloved bird species. The World's Durrie Bouscaren reports from Turkey's central region.

Antibiotic resistance has become a leading cause of death and now accounts for more fatalities than HIV and malaria worldwide, according to a new study published in Lancet. Host Marco Werman speaks to Ramanan Laxminarayan, a senior research scholar at Princeton University.

Tennis Australia was defending its policy of asking spectators at the Australian Open in Melbourne to remove their T-shirts if they had the words "Where is Peng Shuai" on them. But the blowback was swift and fierce, including a "that’s just pathetic"  tweet by tennis great Martina Navratilova. Now the government body for tennis in Australia has backed down, saying it will allow spectators into the...

In the early days of the pandemic, a group of Harvard graduate students from China banded together to create a whole supply chain that delivered protective gear to desperate hospitals in Wuhan. As The World's Rebecca Kanthor reports from Shanghai, the experience profoundly changed some of them.

As of January this year, Spain is the first European country to keep official statistics of femicides — a hate crime defined as the intentional murder of a woman because of her gender. Each case will be reviewed by a special committee with the idea of shedding light on this form of gender-based violence. But as the World’s Lucía Benavides reports, some activists say simply counting femicides isn’t...

A Taliban delegation is in Oslo, Norway, this week for talks on "human rights and humanitarian aid.” It's the Taliban's first official visit to a Western nation since coming to power in August 2021. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Laurel Miller, the director of the International Crisis Group's Asia program, about the talks and whether or not this legitimizes the Taliban.

At least eight people died in a stampede at the entrance to a stadium that was hosting an important match between Cameroon and Comoros in the Africa Cup of Nations. Host Marco Werman speaks with Cameroonian sports journalist Leocadia Bongben, who was at the game.

In Europe, Russian and Ukrainian troops stand at the ready. In recent months, Russia has amassed tens of thousands of its troops near Ukraine, including in neighboring Belarus. But what do Russian people think about the prospect of a renewed war between Russia and Ukraine? Host Marco Werman speaks with Denis Volkov, the director of the Levada Center, an independent polling and sociological researc...

Five former members of a civil defense were found guilty Monday of sexual assaults that occurred during Guatemala’s civil war. The men raped dozens of Indigenous women. María Aguilar Velasquez, a Maya K´íche´ historian in Guatemala City who attended the trial, spoke with The World’s host Marco Werman.

The tiny Pacific island of Tuvalu has struck a deal with US-based internet company Go Daddy to manage its highly coveted internet address: .tv. Ashley Westerman reports on how a convenient domain name, adopted by the popular gaming platform Twitch, has become a major revenue-generating tool for the nation.

For young Mormons, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations" is a rite of passage. Today, thanks to missionaries, the church has expanded well beyond Utah. Most of its converts are outside the US. The church estimates that there are 16 million Mormons around the world, a 50% increase since 2000. But retaining new converts is proving especially difficult. Aryn Braun covers the Mountain West for the E...

Media dispatches describe Kyiv as a scene of panic, as some residents prepare for war. But Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov says the depictions are overblown and his friends and relatives aren’t lining up to buy matches and bread. Kurkov tells The World’s Marco Werman how Ukrainians are dealing with the psychological trauma of rising tensions with Russia.

In 1801, British nobleman Lord Elgin stripped the Parthenon of many of its sculptures and took them to England. Controversy over their acquisition by the British Museum continues to this day. As The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, a shift is finally taking place. 

The rate of global chemical pollution exceeds the planet’s ability to absorb it, threatening the stability of global ecosystems and human health. Plastic pollution, as well as hundreds of thousands of other synthetic chemicals like pesticides, industrial materials and antibiotics, top the list of concerns based on a global study out this month in the journal Environmental Science & Technology....

Alok Sharma, the British politician who ran the UN climate summit in Glasgow in November, said today that unless world leaders turn the the promises made in Glasgow into action, "they will, sadly, wither on the vine." Sharma outlined his priorities for the next 10 months, ahead of the next UN climate summit, today in London.