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Monday was the first time in six months that moviegoers in China could actually go inside a movie theater. The World's Rebecca Kanthor went to two films today. She tells host Carol Hills what was on the screen and how audiences dealt with pandemic restrictions.

Thomas Craemer, who is German, grew up feeling shameful about his country’s racist history. He spent a lot of time trying to understand why his grandparents’ generation allowed and in many cases participated in the Holocaust. It led him to an academic career that for the past 20 years has focused on racial attitudes and reparations for the descendants of those who were forced into slavery in the U...

Germany prides itself on taking a tough stance against far-right extremism, especially neo-Nazi ideology. In Berlin alone, there are more than 36 memorials and museums dedicated to remembering the atrocities of World War II. But now Germany is battling a rise in right-wing nationalism, even in the highest ranks of its own military. Luisa Beck reports from Berlin.

If there’s one good thing you can say about drug traffickers, they can certainly be creative. Italian police found cocaine inside hollowed-out coffee beans. Investigators were tipped off at Milan's Malpensa Airport when a shipment of coffee beans from Colombia arrived addressed to Santino D’Antonio, the name of a mafia boss in the film “John Wick: Chapter 2.”

There’s nothing like talking about money to get tempers frayed. And for four days now, the leaders of the European Union’s 27 member states have been locking horns over the EU’s coronavirus recovery package. The talks were due to last only two days, but stark differences have emerged. The World’s Orla Barry has the latest.

More than a year since the downfall of the Islamic State in Iraq, investigators are trying to document and piece together its atrocities. It's a tough job made even more difficult with a global pandemic. The World's Shirin Jaafari reports.

A record 35 immigration judges have left the bench in the past year. Turnover is the highest since record keeping began in 1997. Host Carol Hills speaks with Judge Ashley Tabaddor, the president of the National Association of Immigration Judges, about the immense backlog of cases and other issues judges are facing right now.

The battle between the Mexican government and organized crime has raged on for more than a decade. Hundreds of thousands of people have been killed, and many have simply gone missing. As The World’s Jorge Valencia reports, the Mexican government is now reporting a grim new figure on the number who have disappeared during the so-called drug war.

There was a glimmer of hope in the fight against the coronavirus on Monday as scientists at Oxford University published the results of an early phase coronavirus vaccine experiment. The Lancet, a medical journal, reviewed and published the research. Host Carol Hills speaks with Richard Horton, The Lancet’s editor-in-chief.

Jonny McFadden, a pub landlord in Cornwall, England, is serious about social distancing. So much so he's installed an electric fence in front of his bar to encourage customers to keep their distance. Is the wire actually hot? Touch it and find out, McFadden teases. Host Carol Hills has more.

Goya Foods’ CEO sparked controversy when he praised US President Donald Trump at a recent White House event. As calls for a boycott spread, the CEO doubled down on his support. Reporter Gabrielle Berbey dug deeper into the controversy, starting with a photograph on a can.

The Black Lives Matter movement has reverberated around the world. For one grieving family in rural south Wales, the movement has given them hope for justice. Last summer, a young Black teen drowned when a white schoolmate pushed him into a river. The judicial system refused to prosecute the suspect. But now that could change. Brenna Daldorph reports.

US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield gave an interview this week for the podcast The Economist Asks. One of the many topics discussed is the increasing politicization over wearing face masks to prevent the spread of the coronavirus. Host Carol Hills speaks to John Prideaux, US editor at The Economist magazine, about his conversation with Dr. Redfield.

India has followed the US and Brazil as the third country to hit 1 million cases. And with nearly 40,000 new cases a day in India, its coronavirus crisis hasn’t yet hit its peak. Host Carol Hills speaks with Bhramar Mukherjee, a professor of biostatistics at the University of Michigan who has been modeling India's outbreak.

A Yemeni tanker ship with 1 million barrels of oil has been rusting in the Red Sea throughout the country's five years of war. Now there's a chance that a potential oil spill larger than the Exxon Valdez can be prevented. Host Carol Hills speaks with John Ratcliffe from the United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, about the disaster scenarios and what's being done to av...

The coronavirus pandemic has affected many parts of life — even how people become new US citizens. Now, instead of taking the oath alongside other immigrants, some new citizens are going through drive-throughs, rolling down their car window while a masked official administers the oath at a distance. But these ceremonies are only slowly chipping away at a massive citizenship application backlog. An...

Last week, the Trump administration announced it would block visas for international students who could only take their US university classes online. That policy was reversed this week after Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit against the government. But the anxiety it caused could do long-term damage to the ability of American universities to attract f...

After decades of service, British Airways announced today it will be retiring its entire Boeing 747 fleet. The so-called “jumbo jet” or “queen of the sky” is getting phased out, in part, due to the drop in international travel. To many people, especially aviation experts and enthusiasts, this represents the end of an era in aviation. Host Carol Hills speaks with Phil Seymour, an aviation analyst w...

What should a country do when a citizen leaves to join a terrorist group overseas, then wants to return home? That debate has taken a turn in the United Kingdom. Shamima Begum left Britain at age 15 and joined ISIS in Syria. Last year, she was discovered in a refugee camp there and appealed to come home. But the British government revoked her citizenship. This week, a British court ruled that Sham...

Think you'd like to escape the United States for a while? The small Baltic state of Estonia might have the answer. The country plans to launch a Digital nomad visa scheme next month. It's the brainchild of entrepreneur Karoli Hindricks who explains all to host Carol Hills.

Abortion has been legal in Spain since the 1980s. But in January, the Spanish Health Ministry blocked access to a website that provides abortion pills for free. Lucia Benavides and Shauna Blackmon report that abortion rights activists in Spain worry the move could set a precedent for future restrictions.

The Palestinian Authority has imposed a nighttime and weekend curfew following a dramatic increase in the number of confirmed cases of the coronavirus throughout the West Bank and Gaza. Cases there have more than doubled in the last 12 days. Host Carol Hills speaks with Dr. Ali Abed Rabbo, the general director of preventive medicine at the Palestinian Health Ministry.

In Iran, a rare online protest went viral this week, calling for the end of the death penalty there. The Persian hashtag Don't Execute was tweeted nearly 5 million times. It came in response to three young men, Amirhossein Moradi, Mohammad Rajabi and Saeed Tamjid, convicted in connection to mass protests in Iran last November. Iran's judiciary suggested it may halt their executions. Host Carol Hil...

Physicist Yangyang Cheng was born in mainland China and took advantage of a visa program a decade ago to come to the US to study. Cheng tells host Carol Hills her relocation involved trading one set of freedoms for another.

As China cracks down on political freedoms in Hong Kong, some residents of the Chinese territory are thinking seriously about getting out. Australia says people from Hong Kong are welcome to come to live there. But there’s also a catch, as The World’s Patrick Winn reports.