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This week concludes with a massive wow. But if you look beyond President Donald Trump’s COVID-19 diagnosis and a wild debate, there are still multiple policy issues to keep track of: US foreign policy, climate change and more. For more, Host World’s Marco Werman hosted a reporter roundtable featuring The World’s Shirin Jaafari and Jorge Valencia.

This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of German reunification. Many steps led to that moment, but one pivotal event involved a rare East German press conference that went strangely wrong. Kevin Caners reports from Berlin.

The Great North Air Ambulance Service in northern England is considering a new transport device for its medics: Jet suits. Host Marco Werman tells the story, with details from Andy Mawson, who says the suit is ready to fly a paramedic up the side of a cliff with all the medical equipment needed to rescue someone in cardiac arrest.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson battled COVID-19 back in April and ended up in intensive care. The way he has managed his country's response to the disease, even after contracting it, remains controversial. The World speaks to Anne McElvoy, host of The Economist Asks podcast.

Doctors have learned a lot more about COVID-19 since the early days of the pandemic, and since British Prime Minister Boris Johnson fell ill and was hospitalized earlier this year. That might be good news for President Donald Trump, if his or First Lady Melania Trump’s reportedly mild symptoms get worse. Host Marco Werman speaks with The World’s Elana Gordon, who covers global health, about what d...

In Thailand, students learn at an early age that there are certain things you can't say and certain people you don't question. Conservatives say this creates an orderly society. But The World's Patrick Winn says there's a new movement of self-proclaimed "bad students" who are shocking the country by challenging its ultimate taboo.

Ireland's Supreme Court has ruled that the bread used by the fast-food chain Subway contains too much sugar to legally qualify as bread, a "staple food," for tax purposes. Host Marco Werman speaks to Katy McGuinness, a food writer and restaurant critic based in Dublin.

The violence started on Sunday, and dozens of casualties have already been reported. The conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan in the Nagorno-Karabakh region has been simmering for more than a decade. Its history is rooted in territorial conflict, national identity, religion, and the fall of the Soviet Union. Host Marco Werman speaks with Simon Saradzhyan, director of the Russia Matters Project...

Raphaël Glucksmann, a French member of the EU Parliament, is spearheading a campaign to hold dozens of multinational fashion brands accountable for using forced labor of the Chinese Uighur minority in their factories. Rebecca Rosman reports from Paris on how he's using social media to mobilize an army of young people to join his campaign.

A group of US human rights lawyers is suing the Trump administration over an executive order targeting the international criminal court in The Hague. They say the move is keeping them from doing their work on behalf of war crimes victims around the world. Host Marco Werman speaks to Diane Marie Amann, a professor of international law at the University of Georgia and one of the plaintiffs in the la...

In the last decade, Danish energy company Ørsted did what few other energy utilities in the world have been able to do: They went from being almost entirely reliant on oil, gas and coal to being the biggest producer of offshore wind in the world. This week on The Big Fix, The World's Anna Kusmer reports on how decades of government policy supporting wind energy led to Ørsted's remarkable transitio...

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern squared off with challenger Judith Collins on Wednesday night. Host Marco Werman has the story.

Author Daphne Geismar began a Zoom presentation of her new book about her family's survival of the Holocaust. Within seconds, anti-Semitic hackers defaced images on the screen before a virtual audience of Holocaust survivors. She tells host Marco Werman about the incident and its aftermath.

Falsehoods about the pandemic are ricocheting around the globe with alarming speed. A new study from Cornell University finds President Donald Trump is the biggest offender. Sarah Evanega, the director of the Cornell Alliance for Science and the study’s lead author, shares insights with The World’s Marco Werman.

Around the world, the coronavirus is causing spaces to be reused in new ways: Hotels are dorm rooms, arenas are voting locations — and now theaters are courtrooms. The Lowry Theatre in Salford, England, has been converted by the Ministry of Justice to help tackle a backlog of nearly 50,000 legal cases. The World's Marco Werman speaks with Rachel Miller, The Lowry’s marketing director.

Fires have been tearing through much of California and the Pacific Northwest since mid-August. Now, a new large fire is burning in northern California, hitting the area's winemaking region hard. The World's Monica Campbell has been following how immigrant farmworkers in the US have been hit particularly hard this year – first, by COVID-19 — and now, by the wildfires. 

Turkey is one of the few majority Muslim countries where abortion is legal, but access to abortion is becoming limited under the conservative government. Many public hospitals have stopped providing them, and police have busted back-alley clinics. As Fariba Nawa reports from Istanbul, the subject of abortion is fraught — even among friends.

As ISIS took over Mosul in 2014, Archbishop Najeeb Michaeel Moussa jumped into action to save hundreds of historic documents. Now, he has been nominated for a prestigious award by the EU that honors those who defend human rights and freedoms. The World's Shirin Jaafari has the story.

Members of the US House Intelligence Committee are increasingly worried that China is shaping geopolitics and global technology, while the US intelligence community lacks the resources or the mindset to challenge Beijing. The panel has just released a new report pinpointing US failures and suggesting a way ahead. Panel chair, Rep. Adam Schiff, talks with The World’s Marco Werman.

In Mexico, keeping public schools closed in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus has come at a high cost: millions of students are dropping out altogether because they lack TV or the internet. The World’s Latin America correspondent Jorge Valencia reports on how a local tortilla shop has become an access point for school kids in one Mexico City neighborhood.

Yemen’s warring sides agreed on Sunday to exchange more than 1,000 prisoners of war, marking the first phase of a prisoner-release plan reached earlier this year. Yara Khawaja, spokesperson for the International Committee of the Red Cross in Yemen, tells host Marco Werman how the prisoner swap will be managed.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, or OSCE, is the largest international body charged with monitoring elections. It wanted to bring 500 observers for the upcoming US elections. Instead, there will be about 130, mostly because of COVID-19 concerns. Fewer people than expected volunteered to come to the US.

People from all over the world tuned in to last night's US presidential debate, including viewers in Brazil, some of whom saw parallels between Trump's performance and their own populist leader, President Jair Bolsonaro. Host Marco Werman speaks to Mauricio Santoro, a professor of political science at the State University of Rio de Janeiro.

Viewers across the globe tuned into the 2020 presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden Tuesday night. Host Marco Werman has the story.

Former Edinburgh Rugby player Dean Nicholson was tired of working a traditional job with traditional hours, so he quit his job and decided to cycle around the world. The plan was to go solo. Then he met a little companion he couldn't leave behind. The World's Marco Werman has the story.