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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is trailing in the polls ahead of next year's election, but he's getting support from organizers outside the country: leaders of the American far-right. As Michael Fox reports, the benefits go both ways as conservative activists deepen their global connections.

The winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize will be announced on Friday, and bookies have been busy in the UK. The World's Sarah Birnbaum finds out who's the odds-on favorite, and about some of the surprising nominees.

There are some diseases around the world that are so rare; only a few thousand people suffer from them. That makes funding research difficult. New medical innovations have led to new treatments. But as Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reported from Ghana, many living with rare diseases around the world still struggle to access them.

For decades, an international network of clergy sex abuse survivors and their advocates have been pushing for more accountability within the Catholic Church. Matthias Katsch, a member of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on Child Abuse in Germany and a clergy sexual abuse survivor, and Anne Barrett Doyle, the co-director of the international watchdog group BishopAccountability.org, talk with T...

This coming spring, a group of climbers hope to make history. The group, Full Circle Everest Expedition, hopes to be the first group of Black Americans to summit Mount Everest together. They have spent the last year training and raising money for the project. The World's Marco Werman speaks to Dom Mullins, a mountaineer on the team.

Google on Wednesday announced that driving directions in the US now take fuel efficiency into account when planning routes. That change will be introduced in Europe next year. And around the world, Google Flights now prominently displays the estimated carbon footprint of seats on flights as users shop around. The World's Carolyn Beeler reports on the potential impact of this change. 

Australia has announced that by the end of 2021, it will no longer send asylum-seekers to Papua New Guinea, formally ending its controversial offshore detention policy there. But Australia will continue the practice on the Pacific island of Nauru. Many of those asylum-seekers intercepted at sea had spent up to eight years in Papua New Guinea. In its waning days, the Obama administration struck a d...

The leader of the World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that a vaccine against malaria has been found to be safe and effective — including for kids, who account for the vast majority of malaria deaths. Regina Rabinovich of ISGlobal Health explains to host Marco Werman why this vaccine is being called "historic" and a game changer.

Hundreds of migrants are traveling by land and sea every day, hoping to reach the US. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia tells the story of one man who left Haiti years ago, and whose circuitous journey has unexpectedly come to a halt in southern Mexico.

A rare orange lobster was seen in a grocery store lobster tank in Whitby, Ontario. After other lobsters in the tank began bullying the uncommon crustacean, Niki Lundquist arranged for him to find a new home, where his life expectancy now is much greater. Marco Werman tells the story of Pinchy the Lobster with audio from the CBC radio program, As It Happens.

It was a single line in China's recently announced 10-year plan for improving the lives of women. But it caught the attention of many. Instead of a policy where abortions are widely available, now, the government has pledged to “reduce abortions conducted for non-medical reasons." Columbia University professor Leta Hong Fincher, author of "Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China," d...

For the last several days, the Chinese military has sent dozens of fighter jets and bombers hurtling toward Taiwan in a provocative daily show of force. Taiwan's leaders are warning of "catastrophic" consequences if the self-governed democracy is allowed to fall under the control of China's authoritarian, one-party state. Why is China taking these actions now? The World's Patrick Winn reports.

Darkovibes composes and sings in English, Pidgin and the Ghanaian language of Twi. They produce their music in what is now the universal language of autotune. Marco Werman plays us their latest hit, “Je M'appelle.” And yes, it's in French!

On Monday, Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp were offline for reasons that are unclear. That left billions of users without social media. In some places, WhatsApp specifically is depended on for everyday communication and for small businesses around the world. The World’s host Marco Werman talks to Elsie Ewudzie-Sampson, who runs a grocery delivery in Accra, Ghana, about how the outage disrupted h...

El Salvador's citizens have faced multiple traumas in the past decades: war, gang violence, natural disasters and now COVID-19. Yet, there are very few mental health professionals, especially for the majority of the population who rely on the public health system. Anna-Catherine Brigida reports from San Salvador about a group of ambulance workers on how they cope with the tragedy they see on a dai...

As revelations from the “Pandora Papers” continue to rock the world of high finance, investigators are pointing to ways the offshore accounting system can be reformed and made more transparent. Maíra Martini, a money-laundering expert with Transparency International, and Josh Rudolph, a fellow for malign finance with the Alliance for Securing Democracy, talk with The World’s host Marco Werman.

The $3.5 trillion reconciliation bill hanging in the balance amid Washington squabbling would — if passed — be the single biggest environmental legislation ever enacted in the US. Paired with the infrastructure bill, they are seen as key to meeting President Joe Biden's pledge to the international community to slash greenhouse gas emissions in half by the end of the decade. Climate change experts...

Three climate change scientists have won the Nobel Prize in physics. The Nobel statement said the work of these scientists built the foundation “for groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex systems.” The World's Marco Werman spoke with Zeke Hausfather, director of The Breakthrough Institute, about the scientists' research and achievements. 

The Bishops' Conference of France has released a report documenting more than 300,000 cases of child sexual abuse within the French Catholic Church. The independent commission, called on by the church, is the first of its kind anywhere in the world. Rebecca Rosman reports on the commission’s findings and reactions from victims of this abuse in France.

On Saturday, British cyclist Lizzie Deignan made history. She won the first-ever women’s edition of what is considered one of the hardest bike races in the world. France’s Paris-Roubaix is nicknamed the “Hell of the North,” and is famous for its 70-mile trek through muddy terrain and uneven cobblestones. For the first time this year, women competed in the Paris-Roubaix Femmes. And Deignan is now t...

The University of Liverpool is launching a master's program on one of the most popular bands of all time: the Beatles. The program will focus on how attitudes towards the ever-popular group have changed in the decades since their founding. The World's Marco Werman spoke with Holly Tessler, the program leader behind the new master's program, to find out more.

President Rodrigo Duterte, 76, in a surprise announcement, said he will not run for vice president. The move could spur his daughter, Sara Duterte, the popular mayor of Davao city, to run for the country's highest position next year. Ashley Westerman reports on the legacy of Duterte’s administration through three specific promises he made to the Filipino people.

Scientists in India are readying to roll out the world's first DNA-based vaccine this month. The government has authorized it for COVID-19. But the implications go beyond the pandemic. It represents a proof of concept for a new wave of vaccines, ones that could help take on other diseases in the future. The World's Elana Gordon reports. 

Confidence in British police has been shaken following the sentencing of a serving police officer for the kidnap, rape and murder of a young woman, Sarah Everard, in London last March. The police advice to women to wave down a bus if they fear an approaching male police officer might not be genuine has been described as “laughable” by women's rights groups. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Ba...

The federal government in Ethiopia has ordered seven United Nations officials to get out of the country, accusing them of meddling in Ethiopia's affairs. A civil war between Ethiopia's central government and rebels from the northern Tigray region has continued for nearly a year. UN officials say their work is vital and that millions of people in Tigray are in critical need of food and medicine. Th...