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Canada has long been an attractive option for international students. It’s seen as a safe and generally non-discriminatory place to study, with impressive schools and post-graduation work rights. But 2024 brought a year of significant changes to the education sector. Prospective international students fear an unknown future. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

A Brazilian judge has ordered that the Adele song “A Million Years Ago” be removed from music streaming services worldwide over a plagiarism claim by Brazilian composer Toninho Geraes. The Brazilian singer claims that Adele’s 2015 hit is a ripoff of his own 1995 bossa nova classic, "Mulheres." Host Marco Werman plays both recordings, and explains why the court decision may well be challenged.

Ten years ago today, Washington and Havana announced a historic deal to normalize diplomatic relations. President Donald Trump then rolled back the accord. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with the two diplomats who hammered out the deal: Ricardo Zuñiga, a former senior director for Western Hemisphere affairs at the National Security Council, and Ben Rhodes, the former deputy national security...

The fate of more than 50 men accused of rape and sexual assault in a harrowing case that has gripped France will be decided by a French court this week. Gisele Pelicot waived her anonymity so the men, including her ex-husband, would face trial in public. Pelicot has since become a feminist icon in France, and her case has sparked discussion about attitudes toward sexual assault in the country. The...

There’s an archive at Manhattan University in New York for the De La Salle Christian Brothers, a lay order founded in France and now headquartered in Rome. The order, dedicated to education, is shrinking. As its institutions shut down, boxes upon boxes of relics are being sent to this campus, where an archivist wants the objects to be displayed in a reliquary so that visitors can venerate them. Jo...

The first-ever direct, daily bullet train is now running between Paris and Berlin. At roughly eight hours a trip, the new service is more than four times longer than a flight between the two capital cities, but it's being hailed as a symbol of French-German friendship. The World's Jeremy Siegel reports.

The Royal Mail, the UK's postal service, will be sold to Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky. It was privatized back in 2013, but Krestinky's "EP Group" will be the first foreign owners of the postal service. The World's Host Marco Werman explains.

An iceberg the size of Rhode Island is once again floating through the Southern Ocean, after being stuck in place due to being caught in a vortex. The World's Host Marco Werman speaks with Till Wagner about why the iceberg was stuck and what its release means for life on the planet.

Zakir Hussain died on Sunday in San Francisco. Zakirji, as he was known to his admirers, was a man whose fingers turned into a blur when he performed on the tabla — drums from the Indian subcontinent. The World's Host Marco Werman had the opportunity several times to speak with him. We hear excerpts from two interviews in which Hussain describes performing for American audiences for the first time...

The six justices on South Korea's constitutional court have begun deciding whether or not to remove President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The World's Host Marco Werman has more.

The straits of Denmark are notoriously narrow and shallow. And they're a strategic gateway for Russian oil. But because that oil is sanctioned by the West, Russia tries to sneak it out through Danish waters to the North Sea and on to places like China and India. The World's Joshua Coe has our story.

The EU has worked out a price tag for a constellation of satellites that would beam internet service from space to its member states. The project, called Iris2 is increasingly a priority for the EU, due to security concerns with Starlink CEO, Elon Musk. Peggy Hollinger, a space editor for the Financial Times, explains what the project is all about.

When Amazon brought a fulfillment center to Tijuana’s Nueva Esperanza neighborhood in Mexico, the business community praised the new addition as a welcome boost to the local economy. A city press release said the new warehouse would contribute “to the ongoing (post-pandemic) economic recovery.” Three years later, residents the Nueva Esperanza neighborhood say little has changed; the community stil...

After Jamaica gained independence from England in 1962, it retained the British monarch as head of state. But if new legislation presented in parliament were to pass — which is unlikely — that would bring the ceremonial nod to the island's colonial past to an end. The World's Host Marco Werman explains.

There's a Barcelona neighborhood that's home to a cluster of women whose average lifespan far exceeds the global average. But that neighborhood in Spain, "L’Eixample", is anything but a haven of healthy living. It's filled with polluting cars, few green spaces and a lot of noise. So, what might explain their longevity? The World's Gerry Hadden takes a look.

Cyclone Chido roared through the island nation of Mayotte on Monday with 140-mile-per-hour winds. Thousands are feared dead in the French Indian Ocean territory, though France's interior minister said it could be "days and days" before an exact death toll is known. The World's Sarah Birnbaum reports.

In the south of Thailand, the dialect is faster, the sun is hotter and the food is not just spicy, it’s atomic. The World’s Patrick Winn visited a small-town cook in the region who makes curry soup with a twist — adding big, gooey eggs from a local species of giant catfish.

Israel's prime minister says his government plans to double the Israeli population in the Golan Heights. The area has been considered a "strategic plateau" since Israel captured it from Syria in 1967. Joshua Landis, who heads the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Oklahoma, joins The World's Host Marco Werman to discuss the significance of the Golan Heights for countries in the re...

Sednaya Prison in Damascus was synonymous with the brutality of Syria's Assad regime. Once inside, prisoners had little chance of coming out alive. Yet over the past week, thousands of families rushed to the prison in the hope of finding their missing loved ones. Many left with no answer. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

Climate change is a challenge for farmers everywhere. That includes coffee farmers. But climate change alone doesn't explain the current uptick in prices. There's another force at play. Peter Roberts, an academic director of specialty coffee programs at the Business and Society Institute at Emory University, helps demystify what's happening in the market.

An Iranian singer was hailed as a hero by supporters on Thursday but faced prosecution after giving an online concert without wearing a head covering — the hijab — in defiance of the Islamic dress code. Host Carol Hills has the story of Parastoo Ahmadi, who streamed the concert on her YouTube channel late on Wednesday.

For decades, Canada has been home to the largest Sikh community outside the Indian state of Punjab. But as diplomatic tensions flare up between Canada and India, some members of the Sikh faith face heightened threats. The World's Bianca Hillier reports from Toronto.

Emerging research pinpoints the exact time when Neanderthals and Homo sapiens began interbreeding to 47,000 years ago. That interbreeding left a genetic marker on modern human beings. Host Carol Hill speaks with evolutionary scientist Chris Springer about the significance of the study and what these genetic markers actually look like.

In recent months, Russian forces have been advancing in eastern Ukraine at the fastest pace since the early days of the full-scale invasion in 2022. Russia and Ukraine are seeing high casualty rates, which is forcing both sides to mobilize more troops to fill their ranks. But Ukraine’s leadership has been unwilling to mobilize younger men, between 18 and 25 years old — despite pressure from its pa...

President Sadyr Japarov of Kyrgyzstan has proposed updating the country's national anthem. The current anthem was adopted shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union and no longer represents the mature republic Kyrgyzstan has become in the years since, according to Japarov. Host Carol Hills has the details.