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Brazil and Argentina were playing a World Cup qualifying match yesterday in Brazil, when local health officials walked onto the field and interrupted the game. They said three of Argentina's England-based players should have been in quarantine instead of playing in the match. Cue the chaos and arguing. Carol Hills has the story.

Preliminary results from a massive real-world trial involving 600 villages in Bangladesh have affirmed that masks — especially surgical ones — can really help reduce the spread of symptomatic COVID-19 infections. Host Carol Hills speaks with Yale economist Ahmed Mushfik Mobarak — who helped lead the study with the country's ministry of health — about the findings, how to best encourage people to w...

One of Sweden's biggest exports dropped, not one, but two new singles yesterday. The singles dropped ahead of ABBA's first studio album in 40 years! And if that's not enough, they're staging a series of concerts in London next spring. The four band members themselves will be there in the form of digital avatars. New 2021 ABBA closes our show today.

In the years after 9/11, crossing US land borders has become more difficult. That’s had an outsized effect on towns along the Canadian border. The restrictions affected trade and tourism — but they also left a mark on border culture. Some locals in northern Maine, where many people speak French, say 9/11 even affected efforts to preserve the French language. From Ft. Kent, Maine, Levi Bridges repo...

Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto's image of a roadrunner bird, staring up at the enormous US-Mexico border wall, was just named the grand prize winner in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition. Prieto won the prestigious photo contest after his image was selected from 22,000 entries. His captivating photograph highlights the threat to the delicate biodiversity and critical animal migra...

A Syrian child attempting to reach Europe with a group of asylum-seekers claims he was violently pushed back from Greece to Turkey. A second child in the group, also Syrian, managed to escape the forced return to Turkey. In collaboration with the German news magazine Der Spiegel, The World’s Lydia Emmanouilidou has their story.

US Climate Envoy John Kerry spent this week in China. He went there seeking to press the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases to do more to keep climate change in check. For insight into Kerry's brand of “climate diplomacy” and the outcome of the talks, we turn to David Wade, who was  Kerry's chief of staff when the diplomat was Secretary of State.

Representatives from the Venezuelan government and the country’s political opposition are holding negotiations to discuss how the country can overcome its economic crisis. The World’s Jorge Valencia reports from Mexico City, where the meetings are taking place.

Japan's Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga announced today that he would not stand for re-election. As Professor Gerald Curtis of Columbia University tells host Carol Hills, Suga's resignation comes as no surprise in a country where prime ministers have come and gone with great frequency.

This year, Uganda has sent four athletes to the Paralympics in Tokyo. It's a testament to a small, but growing, effort on the ground to increase sports engagement and opportunities among disabled people in Uganda, where they still face high rates of stigma.

Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, there's been a lot of worry about what they will do, how they will rule and what it means for Afghan women. But a more fundamental question is this: Who are they this time around? What is the background, education, and cultural roots and priorities of those who support them? The World's Carol Hills talks to Ahmed-Waleed Kakar, founder of The Afgh...

Host Marco Werman explains how office gossip may prove useful as employees and managers prepare to return to the workplace. Research studies indicate that hearing gossip about colleagues can make us more self-reflective, while being the subject of gossip can cause people to change their behavior.

China has managed to keep its coronavirus numbers relatively low, compared to many other countries. One way it's done so is by adopting a zero-tolerance policy, which includes tight travel restrictions. The policy also includes shutting down shipping and airport terminals for weeks at a time for just one case of COVID-19. As the World’s Rebecca Kanthor reports, shoppers might feel the impact durin...

Sometimes you can be too good at your job. That seems to be the case with the government agency in Indonesia that was in charge of rooting out corruption. Many of its top investigators, those who went after corrupt politicians and the business elite, are now out of a job. This month, the commission is essentially being dismantled. Jason Palmer, host of The Intelligence, a podcast from our partners...

We have all seen the research showing how spending time outdoors can improve people's mental health. But soon, doctors in Brussels will be advising patients to head indoors and lean on museums for support. Host Marco Werman has the details.

Poland is implementing a state of emergency along its border with Belarus, after hundreds of migrants have been coming across that border in recent weeks. Right now, attention is focused on a group of 32 of them. They are mainly Afghans, stuck in political limbo along the border between Poland and Belarus. The World’s Europe correspondent Orla Barry reports.

Host Marco Werman interviews EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson, the EU's top migration official, about what EU leaders are mulling over and planning in order to prevent a migration crisis similar to the one the bloc saw in 2015.

The Taliban are now in charge, and the immediate prospects for the Afghan economy are dire. Sanctions have effectively cut the country off from the global financial system. Foreign aid, which the country relies on, has dried up. And the International Monetary Fund has blocked the new government from accessing emergency reserves. Host Marco Werman speaks with Alex Zerden, who served as Treasury Dep...

In 2020, Afghans received nearly $800 million dollars from their relatives outside the country. That life line was broken when money transfer places suspended their services after the Taliban takeover. The World’s Monica Campbell reports on how people inside and outside of Afghanistan are facing the effects of the crisis.

Harvard professor Sanjiv Chopra, author of the forthcoming book "Coffee: The Magical Elixir," concurs with a new European study that shows how coffee consumption may reduce the risk of heart disease and stroke. And, as he tells host Marco Werman, coffee drinking has many other health benefits, too.

Undocumented women in Texas had little access to abortion even before the state’s new restrictions went into effect. They couldn’t easily travel around the state or leave it. The World’s host Marco Werman talks with Nancy Cárdenas Peña, Texas director for the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice, about the health care barriers that undocumented women face.

What are we to make of the Taliban now that they have risen to power in Afghanistan? For years, in many countries around the world, they've been designated as an extremist or terrorist group. Now that they’re in power, the dynamic may be shifting. Meanwhile, other militant groups, such as ISIS-K and al-Qaeda, are trying to exert influence in this moment of instability. Host Marco Werman speaks wit...

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in Washington, where he’s scheduled to meet President Biden at the White House today. For Zelenskiy, this meeting has been at least two years in the making — his plans to meet with then-President Trump were derailed by the impeachment scandal. Now, with Biden in office, officials in both the US and Ukraine are looking to reset relations between the two co...

COVID-19 has exacerbated a separate public health emergency in North America: a rise in fatal drug overdoses. The quality of street drugs is a big factor, along with increased isolation and closures of health services due to the pandemic. This past year, the US saw more overdoses from illegal drugs than ever before. In the western Canadian province of British Columbia, the crisis prompted an untes...

For decades, the Kurds have been one of the most devoted regional Middle East allies of the United States. But as the US military withdraws from Iraq, as well as Afghanistan, many Kurdish leaders are left wondering if the United States will remain as committed to protecting them. Rebecca Collard reports from the regional Kurdish capital of Erbil, in northern Iraq.