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Chile’s Indigenous Mapuche people have long fought the government over land claims. They've faced discrimination and assimilation in Chilean society. But some Mapuche communities are now turning the page. And they’re using an ancestral sport to help protect and revive their culture, customs and language. Michael Fox has the story from Chile’s capital, Santiago.

One person who has thought a lot about what it means to encounter the power of a wave is Karma Lekshe Tsomo. She is a Buddhist nun who grew up surfing in Malibu, California, and is a professor emerita of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego. Host Marco Werman meets up with her at a surfing beach in San Diego to discuss the higher sense of purpose that can come from being i...

The Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God was constructed over a natural spring that is sacred for Istanbul's Greek Orthodox community. On the first day of every month, hundreds of visitors of all faiths come to make wishes. When a wish comes true, the faithful bring sweets to share. The World's Durrie Bouscaren paid a visit. This story first aired on Aug. 30, 2024.

Two Argentine Jewish musicologists have embarked on a mission to revive their community's musical heritage. They are recording lost songs. From Buenos Aires, Natalio Cosoy first reported this story in October, on how these musicians are bringing that music back to life. This story first aired on Oct. 17, 2024.

Berlin is considered the world’s clubbing capital, and for some, those clubs offer an almost religious experience. But the city is changing, and more and more nightclubs are under threat from gentrification and rising property values. Back in 2020, a group of club enthusiasts in Germany campaigned to have nightclubs given the same cultural status as opera houses — a move they hoped would afford th...

"Wind Phones" are not connected to any phone line, but they are connected in a different sense. The phones create space for people to have a one-way conversation with their loved ones who have died. The wind — so the idea goes — carries your message. The World's Bianca Hillier visited a Wind Phone and speaks with people who use them as a tool to process grief.

Musician Annamaret comes from a Sámi reindeer-herding family and lives way up in northern Finland, close to the Arctic Circle. She describes how the ancient Sámi tradition of yoiking helps connect her to her roots. This story first aired on Dec. 27, 2023.

Far out in the South Pacific, there’s a tropical island called Bougainville. Its people are devoutly Catholic — with a twist. Many revere the Virgin Mary almost as much as her son, Jesus. Women are exalted in the island’s culture as givers of life and sometimes makers of miracles. The World’s Patrick Winn visited Bougainville, discovering an icon of Saint Mary believed to have supernatural powers.

A music teacher in a small town in Iowa looked around at his school a realized that it was increasingly Latino — but there were few Latinos playing in school bands. So, he decided to make a change. He started a mariachi band, a rarity in the Midwest. Now there are four, and they're a big hit with the town. Bret Hayworth of Siouxland Public Media has our story from Denison, Iowa.

Japan’s second- and third-largest automakers are pursuing a $50 billion deal that could dramatically shake up the global auto industry. The move is designed to help the Japanese face headwinds from their major rivals in electric vehicles: Tesla and China’s BYD. The World’s Host Marco Werman discusses the impact of the potential merger with auto industry analyst Michael Dunne,  head of Dunne Insigh...

'We Are Not Numbers': Palestinians grapple with death In the past 14 months, Israeli forces have killed thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. In displacement camps, at hospitals, in lines outside bakeries, death is everywhere. As a result, people have been forced to think about, and prepare, for death. Some have been writing their wills on their phones, others write poems about their last d...

In Denmark, there seems to be a porridge for every occasion. A quintessential part of the Christmas diet in the Scandinavian country is a rice porridge called risengrød. The dish hearkens back to a time when rice was a luxury in the Scandinavian country, says restaurateur Lasse Andersen. He takes The World's Joshua Coe behind the counter at one of his porridge bars in Copenhagen to learn how to co...

Over the weekend, The Guardian published the first known photos of an uncontacted community living in the Amazon. The group is called the Massaco, named after a local river. But what they call themselves, like many other details, remains unknown. The World's Host Marco Werman spoke to John Reid, one of the series' co-authors, about Brazil's policies to avoid direct contact with communities like th...

When "Snoopy's Christmas," a song by The Royal Guardsmen, was released in 1967, it was an international hit. It lacked longevity, though, and quickly fell off the radar. — except in New Zealand. And no one knows why. The World's Sarah Birnbaum investigates Snoopy's staying power there.

More people voted around the world this year than any election year before. The four-year elections lined up with the five-year election cycle for an exceptional string of voting from the beginning of the year to the end. Ravi Agrawal, the editor in chief of Foreign Policy and host of FP Live!, talks through the biggest electoral moments of the year and what they mean for democracy.

Over the years, Japan has developed its own idea of Christmas and the food that comes with it. Fried chicken and strawberry shortcake, or a version of it, are now de rigueur. Gabriella Gershenson, a food journalist and author of the recipe book "Love Japan", explains the country's Christmas food culture.

Christmas lights burning up the night sky are a seasonal phenomenon, but ecologists have long warned about the everyday issues of light pollution. Our partners at Deutsche Welle took a walking tour of the problem in Cologne, Germany, for the program "Living Planet" with journalist Kathleen Schuster.

Each December, Turkish Americans from Kansas City bake an enormous batch of a Middle Eastern sweet to share with people from different cultures and faiths across the city. This year, Laura Ziegler of KCUR joined them as they baked and distributed the baklava.

In many countries, cars are more expensive now than in recent years, thanks to global inflation. But nowhere on earth are vehicles as pricey as in Singapore, where even white-collar workers might pay triple their salaries for a basic four-door sedan. The city-state’s government artificially elevates prices to discourage car buyers. It’s now rolling out a gadget that tracks drivers everywhere they...

In language-divided Belgium, it's cause for complaint when a train conductor greets a Flemish passenger in both Dutch and French, despite being in a non-French speaking region. That's what happened on a recent train heading through Flanders. The country's Permanent Commission for Linguistic Control is now reviewing the case, but Belgian journalist Maïthé Chini with the Brussels Times tells Host Ca...

As the strategic map of the Middle East is reshaped by Hezbollah's fall from power in Lebanon and the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the US is pushing hard for a diplomatic solution in the Gaza Strip. Aaron David Miller, a negotiator for the US State Department on Arab-Israeli issues in the '90s and aughts, explains why the conditions for a ceasefire are improving, and what incentives are pus...

After receiving dozens of complaints about claw machines in Hong Kong, the Consumer Council is considering regulating the games. Councilors say the games are rigged so that they'll never — or rarely — pick up the plushy stuffed animals. Host Carol Hills explains.

The US State Department's top Middle East envoy, Barbara Leaf, arrived in Damascus today for meetings with Syria's new interim government headed by Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham. Afterwards, it was announced that the $10 million bounty on the group's leader, Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, also known as Ahmed al-Sharaa, had been removed. Host Carol Hills spoke with Ibrahim Al-Assil, a non-resident fellow at the M...

Pubs in the UK are running out of Guinness stout, a seasonal favorite. Host Carol Hills tells how the popular — some say irreplaceable — Irish beverage has been sold out across the UK, and how pub owners and Guinness fans are coping with the drought of the distinctive draft.

Local authorities in Mexico City are sponsoring what they call "the largest mural project in the world," an initiative to recover public spaces where abandonment has led to safety concerns. The World's Tibisay Zea takes us on a tour to Iztapalapa, the most populous borough in Mexico City, where close to 11,000 murals have been painted by local artists in recent years.