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South Korea is trying to prevent a surge of COVID-19 cases from getting out of control. Now authorities are placing new restrictions on cafés that have emerged as a hotspot for coronavirus outbreaks. Now, many caffeine addicts can only get their fix to go. Reporter Jason Strother has more from Seoul.

Plastic pollution is a global problem, and increasingly, it’s happening illegally with grave consequences for the world’s most vulnerable people. A new report from international crime fighters Interpol has found that illegal plastic dumping has sharply increased in the last two years. The World's Host Carol Hills speaks to plastics policy expert with the World Wide Fund for Nature, Eirik Lindebjer...

A few months into the pandemic, a meme started to circulate featuring seven female world leaders, asking what countries with the best coronavirus responses have in common. The answer was women. Researchers at the University of Liverpool and Reading decided to investigate if this was in fact true. The World's Europe correspondent Orla Barry has more.

Mustapha Adib, Lebanon's ambassador to Germany, was named the country's new prime minister on Monday. He faces a series of challenges from an economic crisis and the aftermath of the devastating explosion that rocked Beirut's port weeks ago. Host Carol Hills speaks with Sami Atallah, director of the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies in Beirut.

It's become an unofficial end-of-summer ritual: the annual Notting Hill Carnival, one of the biggest street parties in Europe. It draws more than a million people to the London neighborhood to celebrate Caribbean culture with parades, floats, music and colorful costumes. As host Carol Hills tells us, this year, it's all going online.

Who does art belong to? That's a centuries-old debate and also a recent topic on “The Intelligence” podcast. It comes to us from Economist Radio in London. Jason Palmer is the host. He speaks to host Carol Hills about this fascinating and controversial topic.  

People around the world have been leaning on comedy to help them through 2020. But comedians, themselves, are saying they aren’t getting the necessary support to make it through the pandemic. In Scotland, a coalition of comedy industry workers called the Association of Scottish Comedic Arts has asked the government for immediate financial support; the industry, they said, is on the brink of collap...

Host Carol Hills, who follows global political cartoons closely, speaks with Terry Anderson, executive director of Cartoonists Rights Network International, about the arrest of Emad Hajjaj in Jordan. 

If you tuned into the Republic National Convention this week, you could be forgiven for thinking that you'd been transported back in time to the 1950s. Speaker after speaker painted the Democratic Party and candidate Joe Biden as a socialist menace from the "radical left." It's not a new rhetorical theme, as The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.

Host Carol Hills speaks with army veteran Bishop Garrison, director of National Security Outreach at Human Rights First and co-founder and president of the Rainey Center.

The resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came as a surprise and leaves many open questions about the future of US-Japan relations. Host Carol Hills talks about Abe's leadership with Hiroki Takeuchi who teaches political science at Southern Methodist University in Dallas.

The pandemic has upended academic plans everywhere, but Mexico is taking an approach unseen elsewhere: school by television. The federal government says more Mexicans have television sets than computers, thereby making televised classes more accessible. But in southern states like Oaxaca, that model doesn't work. An active teachers union has other plans for its students, as Shannon Young reports.

The University of Texas at San Antonio is home to a collection of more than 2,000 historic Mexican recipe books. During lockdowns due to the coronavirus, they are releasing collections of these recipes online as free e-books so that cooks can enjoy them at home. Host Carol Hills speaks with Amy Rushing, the assistant dean of Special Collections at UTSA libraries, and Rico Torres, the chef and co-o...

Annual Pride celebrations are not common in cities across China. But, Shanghai is an exception where Pride events have been held for more than a decade. But now, organizers say the festival is on hold to protect the safety of all involved. Future events are also on indefinite hiatus. The World’s Rebecca Kanthor has the story.

The United States has found itself in a diplomatic standoff with its allies in the United Nations security council over restoring sanctions on Iran. Despite already triggering the dispute mechanism in the deal, a first step toward reimposing sanctions, European members rejected Washington’s request to reimpose sanctions. Host Carol Hills speaks with Robert Malley, a former White House negotiator o...

A Russian armored vehicle rammed an American vehicle in rural northeast Syria on Wednesday, injuring four US troops. As Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution tells host Carol Hills, it's not the first time Russian and US military have clashed in Syria.

A powerful storm struck the Korean Peninsula on Thursday. Media in North Korea are showing images of broken trees and flooding. Responding to natural disasters is tough enough during normal times. But the pandemic has made relief efforts even more difficult. Jason Strother reports from Seoul.

As fires rage across the state of California, many are wondering how management could improve to reduce the risk in the future. For this week's look at climate solutions, “The Big Fix,” host Carol Hills speaks to The World's Anna Kusmer and Californian Fire researcher Don Hankins about how traditional fire management is being increasingly embraced in Australia, and how that could help inspire Cali...

2020 has been a rough year. This week, we add into the mix fires, floods and hurricanes. Right now, around the world there’s Typhoon Bavi in North Korea, wildfires in the US and once-in-a-generation flooding in China. These separate stories all have a thread: climate change. Host Carol Hills finds out more from The World’s environment correspondent Carolyn Beeler.

The NBA postponed all three playoff games Wednesday night after players from the Milwaukee Bucks announced plans to boycott their game following the police shooting of Jacob Blake in the team's home state. The move from the Bucks was soon followed by the athletes in the WNBA, Major League Baseball and Major League Soccer all joining the protest. Host Carol Hills has details.

A self-proclaimed militia member killed two protesters in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Tuesday in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Host Carol Hills speaks to Peniel Joseph, founder of the Center for the Study of Race and Democracy at The University of Texas at Austin.

Playing music in pubs and restaurants has been banned in Scotland, where authorities worry people shouting to be heard could help spread the coronavirus. Restaurateurs are fighting the idea, saying it's destroying ambiance. Carol Hills speaks with restaurant owner Marina Crolla.

UK colleges and universities will welcome students back in-person this fall. But worries about the coronavirus and finances persist. Host Carol Hill speaks to professor Eric Lybeck, a sociologist at the University of Manchester.

Many major events have gone online during the pandemic — classes, concerts, conventions. Reporter Mikaela Lefrak brings us the story of how musicians worldwide recently connected over one quirky instrument: the ukulele.

A new paper published in Nature shows that some 60% of Antarctica's ice shelves are vulnerable to hydrofracture, or meltwater forcing its way into cracks in the ice and breaking them apart. As atmospheric warming continues, this hydrofracturing could lead to accelerated ice flow and sea-level rise, because these ice shelves stabilize large parts of Antarctica. The World's Environment correspondent...