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It was a big night for Chloé Zhao who on Sunday became the first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe for directing. Zhao, who won for her film "Nomadland," is also only the second woman to take home the award. Social media was bursting with praise for Zhao and the impact of her win as an inspiration to girls and women around the world.

Almost 200 undocumented migrants have occupied a 17th-century church in the center of Brussels for over a month. They’re calling on the Belgian government to grant them the legal right to remain. Some have been living in the country for up to two decades. But Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Sammy Mahdi, who's the son of an Iraqi refugee, appears to be taking a hard-line stance on the i...

Alex Garcia was able to leave a church in Missouri last week after President Joe Biden ordered US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to focus deportations on immigrants convicted of aggravated felonies or who could be threats to national security. The World's Marco Werman talks to Garcia about his experiences living away from his wife and kids and coming back home.

A mix of conspiracy theories, a CIA operation and opposition by religious leaders have hindered vaccine programs in Pakistan in the past. Will it be different with COVID-19? The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

The Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman was named in an unclassified report last week as the man who ordered the operation that killed journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The crown prince, next in line for the Saudi throne, has been shown to be hasty, headstrong, and in his own words, patterns himself after Machiavelli. Justin Scheck, co-author of the book "Blood and Oil," tells host Marco Werman about...

Hundreds of Hong Kong protesters demonstrated outside a downtown courtroom before dawn on Monday, hoping to get inside the building where authorities were arraigning 47 opposition activists. Emily Lau, the former chairperson of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, was among the protesters. Lau tells The World’s Marco Werman the mood was defiant.

Last week, the first COVAX vaccine doses were distributed to the West African country of Ghana. Ghana's president, Nana Akufo-Addo, became the world's first recipient of the coronavirus vaccine through the COVAX program. COVAX is a worldwide vaccine-sharing initiative led by the WHO to help prevent poorer countries from falling behind on immunization efforts. Host Marco Werman talks with Dr. Asied...

Federal health officials in the United States greenlighted Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose, COVID-19 vaccine this past weekend. Around the world, large trials have shown how effective the vaccines are but these studies don’t tell you everything. The World’s Elana Gordon reports on why understanding the virus’s transmissibility even postvaccine is so tricky and how scientists are taking that on...

Police and troops in Myanmar are intensifying a crackdown on unarmed protesters. They opened fire on civilians, killing at least 18 people on Sunday, wounding dozens and leaving cities looking like war zones. The World's Patrick Winn has been in touch with protesters on the ground. He speaks to host Marco Werman.

Friday is the Jewish holiday of Purim when Jews all over the world get dressed up in costume, listen to the story of Queen Esther, act in Purim plays called spiels and consume vast amounts of wine. And as The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports, it's a holiday that has special resonance for some in the queer Jewish community.

Scientists have dated the oldest rock art painting from a cave in remote northwestern Australia using fossilized wasp nests. The painting is a life-size depiction of a kangaroo and more than 17,000 years old (and 600-plus generations) — the oldest known in Australia. This finding highlights the long-standing connection of Aboriginal people to the land and the importance of traditional knowledge an...

Photographer Henryk Ross risked his life to secretly document life inside Poland's Lodz Ghetto during the Holocaust. A collection of his photographs owned by a fellow survivor of the ghetto has been gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Host Carol Hills speaks with Kristen Gresh, senior curator of photographs at the MFA.

Palestinians are calling upon Israel to help them vaccinate against the coronavirus in the West Bank and Gaza. Thus far, Israel has provided only 2,000 doses of the vaccine to Palestinians despite moving to ship thousands of doses abroad to allies in Africa and Latin America. The World's Carol Hills spoke with Yara Asi, a native of the West Bank and PhD candidate in Global Health at the University...

Israel wasn’t the first country to begin vaccinations, but the pace and scale of its vaccination campaign have made it a world leader in shots per capita. The country’s secret: an advanced and equitable health care system, wealthy with medical data from its HMOs. The World’s Ariel Oseran examines how a 100-year-old system can be a model for modern public health care.

Former US security adviser and Russian expert Fiona Hill thinks she may have been poisoned by adversaries at the Kremlin earlier in her career. Hill is this week's guest on The Economist Asks, a podcast brought to us by our partners at Economist Radio.

It has been almost six years to the day since the assassination of Russian opposition politician, and former Deputy Prime Minister Boris Nemtsov. It was a crime that shocked Russians and people around the globe. Nemtsov was gunned down while walking on the Bolshoy Moskvoretsky bridge across the Moscow River just minutes away from the Kremlin. Host Marco Werman talks with one of Nemtsov's allies an...

The Biden administration is being criticized for reopening a Trump-era facility in Texas to receive unaccompanied minors coming to the border. Another facility in Homestead, Florida, is also slated to reopen. The World's Carol Hills talks to Neha Desai, an attorney with the National Center for Youth Law in Oakland, California, to break down these latest developments. Desai has been working to ensu...

As Mexican health officials stumble with their national vaccine rollout, leaving doctors and nurses without shots, the Russian government sent a lifeline this week with 200,000 doses of its Sputnik vaccine. As The World’s Jorge Valencia reports, the Russian government is using the Sputnik to extend its soft power across Latin America. 

The US launched airstrikes in Syria on Thursday, targeting facilities near the Iraqi border used by Iranian-backed militia groups. The strikes killed at least 22 people, according to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Host Carol Hills speaks with Jomana Qaddour of the Atlantic Council about the political and humanitarian issues raised by President Joe Biden's military action.

Fans planning to watch the gilded Olympic torch pass by on its route through Japan are being asked to avoid cheering and instead only applaud the runners. The organizing committee for the Tokyo Olympics announced in a briefing on Thursday new guidelines for fans in an attempt to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

Researchers at the University of Toronto's Institute of Islamic Studies are working to document both the "ordinary and the extraordinary" details of Muslim lives in Canada. The Muslims in Canada Archive is the first of its kind. In part, it aims to change the narrative and the negative perceptions people can have of Muslim communities. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Zimbabwe is set to achieve "food secure" status for the first time in more than 20 years. That's thanks to a unique farming method, and good weather. Columbus Mavhunga reports.

A mixed-use mini-city on the outskirts of Vienna showcases what’s possible for green building, mobility and sustainability. Aspern-Seestadt is a net-zero energy, live/work community. Residents are given a grocery trolley instead of a parking space (you can walk to stores) and buildings produce electricity instead of consuming it. Reporter Amanda Peacher takes listeners through Europe’s greenest ne...

The first 100 days are key to understanding where any presidency is going. Now more than a third of the way into that timeframe, how is President Joe Biden doing in the international policy arena? The World’s host Marco Werman speaks with Nicholas Burns, a former US under secretary of state for political affairs and a former ambassador to NATO.

The Leibniz Institute for the German Language tracks new words in the German language, and has found that the past year has generated a slew of new words around the pandemic — from “overzoomed” (stress resulting from video calls) to “impfneid” (vaccine envy.) Host Marco Werman speaks to Christine Möhrs of the Leibniz Institute, from Mannheim.