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American-Israeli Keith Siegel was taken hostage on Oct. 7 after being kidnapped along with his wife, Aviva, from a kibbutz in southern Israel. He was finally released last week. His niece shares the family's experience.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has made clear that despite his musings about Gaza this week, "the president has not committed to putting boots on the ground in Gaza." But Americans working for private security companies are already operating in the territory. They've been tasked with guarding a strategic area. The World's Shirin Jaafari discusses what these companies do, and how thei...

It's been 100 years since Australopithecus africanus was first described in the journal Nature, suggesting that the African continent had been the birthplace of humanity. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Rebecca Rogers Ackermann, co director of the Human Evolution Research Institute, about the controversy around the fossil that eventually persuaded academics that humans had in fact evolved out of A...

In Poland, an herb called rutka was long stigmatized based on a belief that witches used it for poisoning. But now, the all-woman band Polky is out with a new single — "Rutka" — that flips the narrative, making it a statement about empowerment. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler tell the story.

Deportation flights to Latin American countries are stoking tensions between the US and its southern neighbors. While the number of flights hasn’t increased, some leaders in the region are angry about the treatment of migrants on the flights. The consequences could extend beyond migration policy. Manuel Rueda has the story from Colombia.

Gun violence in Sweden, the likelihood of nuclear talks between Iran and the US, and the interpreter accused of stealing millions of dollars from Japanese baseball star Shohei Otani. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler bring us the latest developments on those stories.

The NFL wants the eyes of the world on this weekend's Super Bowl. And one place where American football already has traction is Japan, home to one of the top leagues outside of North America. Reproter Kai Dambach checks out that league's championship game, known as the Rice Bowl, to meet the players and learn about the history of football in Japanese society.

Whale song is more similar to human speech than previously thought. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Carol Hills have the details.

If you can’t sing alone, sing along — that’s the spirit behind Germany’s Rudelsingen, literally “wolf pack singing”, in which hundreds or even thousands of the tonally challenged singers come together for mass karaoke events. It started as a trend in the 2010s, but now it's a national tradition. Reporter Valerie Hamilton takes us inside the pack for the story.

A Syrian military defector whose photographs made clear the extent to which torture and killing were taking place inside the prisons of the former Assad regime has revealed his identity. The man widely known as "Caesar" is Farid Nada al-Madhan. Host Carol Hills gets the inside story from Mouaz Mustafa, director of the Syrian Emergency Taskforce, who worked closely with Caesar to share his document...

High-tech companies, desperate for abundant and green energy, have discovered the windmills of northeast Spain. They're investing billions in data-centers there, transforming the local economy. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Aragón.

Temperatures rose to unseasonable highs throughout Russia last week. In Moscow, city-dwellers welcomed the reprieve from the cold, casting off their heavy coats and delighting in the sound of singing birds. In more remote parts of the country, though, where people's lives revolve around the expectation of temperatures well below freezing, the warm spell caused real problems, from melting ice roads...

In 2021, President Joe Biden appointed Jessica Stern as the US special envoy to advance the human rights of LGBTQI+ persons. She left office last month with the changing of the guard at the White House. In her first interview since leaving the State Department, Stern talks with The World's Bianca Hillier about what she accomplished in the past four years — and the far-reaching impact the Trump adm...

Japan experiences more earthquakes than any country. But its transit system remains remarkably safe. The bullet train, for example, has never seen a death or serious injury due to an earthquake or tsunami. As The World's transportation correspondent Jeremy Siegel reports, other countries should take note as climate change causes more natural disasters globally.

This week, President Donald Trump restored his former policy of "maximum pressure" on Iran. But he followed that with online comments signaling a willingness to work toward a nuclear deal. The World's Carolyn Beeler speaks with Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group, about how Iran's position has changed since the previous Trump administration, and what all of this looks...

This week, a ceasefire took hold in the city of Goma, in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Now, the grim task of burying some 2,000 bodies begins. The World's Marco Werman spoke to Arlette Bashizi, a photojournalist based in Goma, for the latest news from the ground.

With recent cuts to foreign aid, including programs like PEPFAR, thousands of Africans living with HIV face an uncertain future. Although the freeze was followed by an exemption for "life-saving treatments," some programs have ceased operations. Ridwan Karim Dini-Osman reports from Accra, Ghana.

Syria's national symphony orchestra performed last week at the Damascus opera house. As hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler explain, musicians and audiences alike expressed relief that the arts are able to continue under a new government.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek tells host Carolyn Beeler about his walk across South Korea's Saemangeum, a tidal flat on the coast of the Yellow Sea. It was a home for all kinds of birds, mammals and snakes. Now isolated behind a 22-mile sea wall, the mud flat has lost most of its wildlife.

Thailand on Wednesday cut the power to large criminal compounds just across its border with Myanmar. Located in semi-lawless areas, the jungle compounds are notorious for scamming — and raking in billions of dollars. Thai authorities say they're cracking down on these places that kidnap and hold thousands of workers from Thailand and China, to text and call victims around the globe. The World's Pa...

California lawmakers are proposing steps to protect K-12 students and families from the mass deportations promised by the Trump administration. A pair of bills in the Legislature aim to keep federal agents from detaining undocumented students or their families on or near school property without a warrant. From KQED in San Francisco, Tyche Hendricks reports. 

Most of our gadgets rely on chips. Electronic chips. But that’s about to change. The chips of the future are chips of light. They use light particles known as photons to move data. Europe wants to lead the way in the technolgy. The World’s Gerry Hadden takes us to the Spanish town of Castelldefels to check out one of Europe’s leading photonics laboratories.

Sweden is reeling after 11 people died following a shooting in the city of Örebro. It's being called the worst mass shooting in the Swedish history. Ardavan Khoshnood is an associate professor at Lund University who researches gun violence in the Sweden. He joined the show to from the southern Swedish city of Malmö. 

During his two-decade rule, Bashar al-Assad and his officials carried out numerous atrocities, some of which have been documented by human rights groups. Now, as Syria begins a new chapter, the hard task of bringing justice for past crimes begins.

While the human world is dealing with the effects of COVID-19, the frog world is dealing with its own global pandemic. It's called Kit-rid fungus. The World's Sarah Birnbaum explains what it's about, and the danger it poses to a creature the size of a thumbnail.