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The northern Chinese city of Xi’an is experiencing China’s most serious COVID-19 outbreak this year. It went into full lockdown over a week ago and residents are struggling to adapt. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor in Shanghai has an update.

Food blogger Joanne Lee Molinaro has millions of followers on TikTok and not just for her delicious plant-based Korean recipes. She tells us about the deep connection between food and family. Marco Werman speaks to The Korean Vegan.

Russian disinformation campaigns are believed to have influenced elections in many parts of the world in the past few years, including in the United States. They also operate domestically in Russia. Reporter Theo Merz, with the podcast “On Spec,” recently examined how the information divide affects LGBTQ communities in Russia.

A decade of war has decimated Syria's health care system. In Idlib province, the last remaining opposition-held area, bombings continue, albeit less frequently than before. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports on the challenges doctors and health care workers face while battling the deadly pandemic.

In an end-of-year news conference, the head of the World Health Organization on Wednesday took note of the fact that we are more than two years into the coronavirus pandemic. Perhaps next year will be a turning point. The World's host Marco Werman has an update.

Just two hours from London, in a stone quarry, archaeologists found one of the biggest ice-age discoveries in recent years. A mammoth graveyard from 200,000 years ago. They also found tools likely used by Neanderthals. The findings are the focus of a new BBC documentary, “Attenborough and the Mammoth Graveyard,” which premieres on Thursday. Lisa Westcott Wilkins is an archaeologist with DigVenture...

On Sunday, Egypt's authoritarian leader, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, announced water conservation and specifically banned growing decorative plants. It was a rare official admission that Egypt is facing a water crisis. Some attribute Egypt's dwindling water supply to population growth and others to the construction of Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam at the headwaters of the Nile. Marco Werman interviews...

The Philippines have been hit with 15 typhoons this year. Typhoon Rai, which made landfall on Dec. 16, was by far the worst, compared by many to the 2013 Cyclone Haiyan, which killed 6,300 people. But because Filipinos in the path of Typhoon Rai followed evacuation plans, just hundreds of people died. Still, the destruction from Rai is massive, and recovery will take months. Host Marco Werman spea...

Denise Ho, a Cantopop superstar, was also arrested in the sweep that detained the journalists at Stand Media. Host Marco Werman reminds us why in the eyes of Beijing, Ho is potentially more dangerous than the free press in Hong Kong.

Authorities in Hong Kong shut down pro-democracy news organization Stand News on Wednesday. It's yet another blow to freedom of the press in the special administrative region of China, which has seen 50 media organizations shut down operations since the passing of the National Security law. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Tom Grundy, editor in chief of Hong Kong Free Press, about the closure o...

For more than 30 years, Memorial International has been Russia’s most prominent human rights organization. Today, Russia’s Supreme Court shut down the organization. Memorial first opened in 1989 with a mission to archive Soviet-era crimes. Later, as it expanded across Russia, it also became a pillar of civil society, advocating for human rights. Host Marco Werman speaks with Russian opposition pol...

Education has often been used as a way to force Indigenous communities to assimilate. But there is an effort to build a stronger education system for Norway's Sámi people — one that respects their traditional knowledge. Logan Turner reports from the Reindeer Husbandry School in Norway. This story was produced by the University of British Columbia’s Global Reporting Program.

Across the globe, the rate of extreme poverty continues to decline. This phenomenon is powered by continued economic growth in places like India and China. But how sustainable is this positive trend? The World's Marco Werman spoke with Charles Kenny, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development, to find out more. 

Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep I has been dead for about 3,500 years — and he looks surprisingly good. His secret? Being expertly mummified in ancient Egypt. Now for the first time, scientists are getting a good look at him using X-rays and digital tools. The World's Marco Werman learns more with Sahar Saleem, a mummy expert and professor of radiology at Cairo University. 

President Jair Bolsonaro came to power in Brazil with significant support from evangelical Christians. Some recent polling for the 2022 presidential election shows his popularity among those groups may be slipping. And Michael Fox reports that progressive evangelicals are beginning to organize against him.

Scientists know the pandemic has distorted our perception of how time passes. But they don’t know exactly how. And why does this unusual moment seem to be passing more slowly in some cultures, and flying by in others? Experimental psychologist Ruth Ogden talks with The World’s Marco Werman about how we measure pandemic time.

Israel is administering a fourth COVID-19 vaccine shot to a test group of health workers in the country’s largest hospital — in what it has called the first major study into whether it will help contend with the fast-spreading omicron variant. We hear from Arnon Afek, deputy director-general of the hospital and acting director.

Thirty years ago, the red Soviet flag came down from atop the Kremlin, and the new Russian tricolor flag was raised. Sunday marked 30 years since the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Host Marco Werman speaks with Yevgenia Albats, editor of the New Times magazine in Russia.

The past 12 months have felt like a lurching roller-coaster ride of ups and downs as we attempt to exit the global, COVID-19 crisis. Author and columnist for The New York Times Zeynep Tufekci reviews a year of progress and setbacks with The World’s Marco Werman.

Recently, omicron seems to be retreating in South Africa and health care workers stretched thin during the surge are now able to get a bit of a break. Host Marco Werman speaks with Fareed Abdullah — an infectious disease doctor at Steve Biko Academic Hospital in Pretoria — about what he learned from the omicron surge in the region where it was first detected.

Edward O. Wilson, the American biologist and naturalist, died on Sunday at 92. He pioneered the subject of sociobiology, which explores how natural selection shapes animal behavior. His work also famously focused on biodiversity conservation around the world, specifically his writing on the half-Earth concept, which calls for 50% of the Earth's biodiversity to be preserved in areas free of humans....

For the next four months, the Biden administration will figure out how to implement and enforce a wide-ranging bill that aims to bar goods from entering the US that were made with forced labor in China. This new act will increase the burden of proof that companies will have to present to show their products were not produced using Uyghur forced labor. Can it help the Uyghur people? The World's Ann...

For most of us, learning a foreign language takes real effort. But teachers say one way to help speed up progress is to sing songs in that new language. Taiwan-born artist Wen-hao Tien is putting this theory to the test in her recent solo show in Boston's Chinatown. From the language podcast, "Subtitle," Patrick Cox has our story.    

We remember Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South Africa’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Anglican cleric. The longtime activist for racial justice and LGBTQ rights died over the weekend at the age of 90. 

How many times over the past 19 months have we all (mostly) said “I’m hanging in there” when asked the question “How are you doing?” A lot. Marco Werman wanted to know how the answer is expressed in other places.