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The White House sent a large delegation of senior officials to face-to-face talks with Taliban officials in Doha, Qatar. They discussed terrorism, human rights and safe passage out of Afghanistan for Americans and others. US officials say they are not prepared to recognize the Taliban government, but the talks do give the group some degree of legitimacy. Kathy Gannon, news director for Afghanistan...

A former US Navy engineer. A peanut butter sandwich. And allegations of selling nuclear secrets. Those are some of the details in a spy saga that's playing out right now in Maryland. Host Carol Hills has the latest.

Abdul Qadeer Khan, also known as AQ Khan, was known as the, "father of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program." He died on Sunday. Khan was widely accused of selling nuclear secrets on the black market to numerous other countries. He later confessed to doing so. Carol Hills talks to Matthew Bunn, a nuclear security expert and professor from Harvard’s Kennedy School.

Since the late 19th century, Spain has celebrated the arrival of Christopher Columbus to the Americas with a military parade and a day off from work and school. But unlike many countries — including the US — there is still no public conversation about the implications of this holiday in Spain. Some Latin American leaders have been asking Spain to apologize for its involvement in the violence commi...

For the nearly two centuries since Ludwig van Beethoven's death, his 10th Symphony has sat unfinished and largely untouched. All the German composer left behind were a few sketches. But with a little help from modern technology, that is about to change. The World's Bianca Hillier has the story.

The Democratic Republic of Congo is moving to lift a nearly 20-year-old moratorium on industrial logging in its rainforest. Dozens of environmental activists are sounding the alarm on how this could impact the forest and the world's efforts to address climate change. The DR Congo rainforest is the second-largest in the world after the Amazon. The World's Halima Gikandi reports.

Across China’s public parks and squares, groups of senior citizens and retirees gather to dance in unison to loud music. They are known as “dancing grannies.” Some residents, annoyed by the decibel level, are too scared to confront the gangs of grannies. So, they are resorting to a device that sabotages the music speakers from afar. The World’s Marco Werman reports.

Iraq holds its parliamentary elections this Sunday. It's a high-stakes vote that was called a year early in response to major protests in 2019. The World’s Shirin Jaafari checks in with one protester on how he sees the vote.

This week, London placed a blue plaque on the former homes of Ellen Craft and William Craft. The Crafts were enslaved in the US, then fled the country in 1850, joining the trans-Atlantic abolitionist movement. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Martha J Cutter, a professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut, about the Crafts' story and the impact of the trans-Atlanti...

“The Battle at Lake Changjin” has brought in 1 billion yuan in ticket sales over the past five days of the October National Day holiday. That's more than the 2017 “Wolf Warrior 2,” also a patriotic film. The film tells the story of Chinese People's Volunteers soldiers who fought in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea from 1950 to 1953.  

The soccer world was stunned on Thursday when Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund finalized a deal to purchase Newcastle FC of the Premier League. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Tariq Panja, a global sports reporter with The New York Times, about the deal and the impact it will have on international club soccer.

On Wednesday, a Saudi court upheld the 20-year prison term of a Saudi aid worker, Abdulrahman al-Sadhan, who had criticized the government on Twitter, drawing a rare public rebuke from the US State Department. Host Marco Werman speaks with Abdulrahman al-Sadhan’s sister, Areej al-Sadhan, a dual Saudi-US citizen, about her family's reaction to the verdict.

Some of the places with the lowest rates of infections and deaths in this pandemic, like New Zealand and Singapore, have taken a “zero-COVID” approach to the virus. Think lockdowns, widespread testing, rigorous contact tracing, mandatory quarantines and restricted travel, even enforced by police. But the rise of delta is challenging the long-term sustainability of this approach. Many places are st...

This Friday was the filing deadline for candidates running for president in the Philippines. Ashley Westerman has been following the race and gives a rundown of the cast of characters, including a child TV star, a world-renowned boxer, and two children of former presidents.

For the first time since 1935, the Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists: Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Russian independent journalist Dmitry Muratov. The Norwegian Nobel Committee said the prize was awarded for their efforts to safeguard freedom of expression against the growing threats against it. Ressa's work on Rappler, the online news site she co-founded, has focused on the a...

India's Transport Minister, Nitin Gadkari, hates the sound of car horns, and the blare of sirens from ambulances and police cars.  He is working on a new law that will replace them with the sounds of Indian musical instruments — tablas, violin, flute, the mouth organ and the harmonium. The World's Marco Werman imagines what traffic might sound like if the law is passed.

There have been a number of reports of illegal and often violent pushbacks of asylum-seekers in the Balkans and the Aegean. Now, an investigation by journalists at Lighthouse Reports has proof: They witnessed and videotaped this taking place at the border of Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. Marco Werman speaks with journalist Klaas Van Dijken, the director of Lighthouse Reports. He personally obser...

The number of immigrants coming to Canada dropped dramatically last year because of the pandemic. And that has serious implications for population growth there. Now, the country is trying to boost immigration numbers by changing the criteria to become a permanent Canadian resident. Anita Elash spoke to some people who have been just waiting for this moment to plan their lives in Canada.

It's been described as "the greatest show on Earth" and "a beacon of hope for the world.” The Dubai 2020 Expo has opened with great fanfare but it has also come with its share of criticisms. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

Many in the US are asking what went wrong in Afghanistan. Two decades of US policy ended with the return of the Taliban controlling the country. Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth is calling for a 9/11-style commission to look at the past 20 years of US involvement in Afghanistan. Duckworth speaks to our host Marco Werman.

Millions of people around the world are expected to submit their names for a chance to apply for a green card. But a massive backlog of visa applications the last two years has experts wondering If the program is really working. The World's Daisy Contreras has the story.

The UK’s Sports Councils Equality Group has released a new report on the inclusion of transgender athletes in sport. The report is the result of an 18-month review process, and it suggests that trans women retain stamina and strength advantages over their cisgender female teammates, leading to what they call a “values-based dichotomy” between inclusion and the integrity of the sport itself. The re...

The Swedish Academy awarded the Nobel Prize for literature to novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, who was born on the East African islands of Zanzibar. They said they chose Gurnah for his "uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism." Bashir Abu-Manneh, a lecturer in postcolonial literature at the University of London, used to teach with Gurnah. He tells The World's Marco We...

The first political casualty from the “Pandora Papers” revelations could be the Czech prime minister. He's accused of using offshore companies to buy several properties on the French Riviera. On Friday, he faces Czech voters in a national election. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry has more.

A massive new environmental report shows that coral reefs around the planet are dying — 14% of the endangered reefs were lost between 2008 and 2019. But according to Jennifer Koss, director of the Coral Reef Conservation Program for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, there are some reasons for hope. Host Marco Werman has the story.