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Britain's energy secretary, Ed Miliband, says his country is poised to lead the world into a new nuclear golden age. The British government has just signed on to fund a $19 billion new nuclear power plant. It says embracing nuclear energy will help protect Britain's energy security and meet the demands of the climate crisis. Carolyn Beeler speaks with Simon Evans, deputy editor and senior policy e...

Recently, 25 people — including six minors — were charged in Paris over a series of kidnappings and attempted abductions targeting Frances’s top crypto entrepreneurs and their families. From our partners at Deutsche Welle, DW, John Laurenson investigates this bizarre and brutal crime wave.

Vladimir Medinsky, a former culture minister and Putin aide, has been Moscow’s chief negotiator in talks with Ukraine. Medinsky’s popular history books and his emphasis on “patriotic education” have the strong backing of President Vladimir Putin. Wall Street Journal correspondent Matthew Luxmoore recently sat down with Medinsky. He tells The World’s Carolyn Beeler what he learned.

The tragic crash of the Air India flight earlier Thursday has renewed concerns around the safety record of planes produced by Boeing. But as retired aircraft accident investigator Jeff Guzzetti told The World's Carolyn Beeler, Boeing's 787 Dreamliners have had good track record — this is the first to experience a deadly crash. Guzzetti worked for both the Federal Aviation Administration and Nation...

In a new analysis released on Wednesday, scientists said climate change boosted Iceland and Greenland’s temperatures by several degrees during a record-setting May heat wave. That's raising concerns about the far-reaching implications melting Arctic ice has for weather around the world. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Nicholas Foukal, an assistant professor at the University of Georgia's Skidaway...

UK Foreign Minister David Lammy says he's troubled by Israel's behavior in the occupied West Bank. Palestinian towns and homes there are routinely attacked by Israeli settlers, and the Israeli army does little if anything to stop them. Now, the UK has slapped sanctions on two Israeli Cabinet ministers. Canada, Norway, Australia and New Zealand are joining in the sanctions. The World's Marco Werman...

Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman take a look at the big stories of the day.

Gang violence has driven more than a million people in Haiti to flee their homes and settle in other parts of their own country. That's the most internal displacement due to violence recorded in Haiti, according to a new report from the International Organization of Migration. In one small town in northern Haiti, reporter Amy Bracken met a pastor who’s helping displaced people get back on their fe...

Jair Bolsonaro and seven allies face charges of attempting to stage a coup after losing the 2022 elections. Rafael Ioris, a professor of Latin American history and politics at the University of Denver, talks with The World’s Marco Werman about what’s at stake in the historic proceedings.

British fathers made history on Tuesday with the world's first "Dad Strike" — and their message was simple: two weeks isn't enough. Pushing prams and holding protest signs, fathers gathered in London and Edinburgh to demand better paternity leave. While other European nations provide months of paid leave, British fathers get just 14 days — a policy campaigners say is decades behind the times. The...

One of Southeast Asia’s most bombastic political dynasties faces judgment day. An impeachment court convenes on Wednesday against Sara Duterte, vice president of the Philippines. Her father is Rodrigo Duterte, the ex-president now detained by the International Criminal Court for overseeing a violent war on drugs. That leaves Sara Duterte as the family’s great hope. But if she is impeached by the P...

Members of the boy-band BTS, the K-pop sensation, are boys no more. With all the members due to be discharged from Korean military service by the end of the month, a reunion is imminent. The World’s Sarah Birnbaum reports.

The Palestinian national football team was seconds away from defeating Oman, stamping their first ever ticket to the FIFA World Cup. But a last-minute penalty awarded a free kick to Oman, who then tied the game. The Palestinian team needed a win to advance to the World Cup next year. Hosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman have the details.

Police say the suspect in a school shooting that left at least 10 people dead, including the shooter, was a 21-year-old former student at the school. It's believed to be the worst school shooting in the country's history. Host Carolyn Beeler spoke to Martina Marx who covers the region around Graz for Kleine Zeitung, a national daily newspaper in Austria.

The past two days in Ukraine have seen heavy bombardment in Kyiv and other cities. On Tuesday, Russia launched one of its largest airstrikes on the capital in over three years of war. And on Monday, Russia carried out the biggest drone assault of the war on Ukraine in what Moscow said is retaliation for attacks by Ukrainian forces on Russia. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Ukrainian political anal...

At Loughborough University in the UK, scientists have made a violin out of platinum that's narrower than a human hair. Although it's not a playable instrument, the violin is a demonstration of a so-called nanolithography system. That's a new technology for creating microscopic patterns that could become essential to the next generation of computer chips. Host Carolyn Beeler has the story.

Every summer in the Swiss cities of Bern, Basel and Zurich, residents engage in a surprising form of commuting: Rather than hopping in the car or onto a train, they hop into a river and let the current carry them. The World's transportation correspondent Jeremy Siegel reports.

The private mercenary company, Wagner, announced its withdrawal from Mali. The government there hired the company to help wage war against an insurgency. But as Philip Obaji Jr., a reporter based in Nigeria who has followed Wagner for years, explains, the Russian strategic campaign on the African continent will remain the same.

For two days in a row last week, some 2,600 undocumented immigrants were arrested in the US. That's up from 600 similar arrests per day in the Biden administration, Homeland Security statistics show. Muzaffar Chishti, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute, tells The World’s Carolyn Beeler why those arrests don’t mean the Trump administration will necessarily meet its goal o...

Italy has long been on the front lines of the European border crisis and — under Giorgia Meloni’s far-right government — is pursuing a hard-line approach to immigration. But there is one institution that is going out of its way to help. The SaMiFo Medical Center in Rome now specializes in treating PTSD among migrants and refugees. From DW, Deutsche Welle, Angelo van Shaik reports.

Climate change is causing France to experience some of the largest temperature increases in Europe. To adapt to this new reality, Paris is expanding an underground network of pipes that move cold water around certain buildings, keeping them cool. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Raphaelle Nayral, the secretary general of Fraicher de Paris, about how this district cooling system works, why the expan...

If you’re considering moving to a German ex-communist model city that is trying to lure new residents with a range of perks, Eisenhüttenstadt is the place for you. The city has many charms, but perhaps best of all is two weeks free rent to check the place out. The population is now less than half the 53,000 it counted before the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the city desperately wants to bolster it...

Athletes dedicate years and possibly their whole lives to make an Olympic team. Once the competition is over, they often enter a period called the "post-Olympic blues," no matter how well they performed at the Games. Some athletes who won medals at last summer's Paris Olympics say they had those same experiences. The World's Bianca Hillier hears how some athletes manage those feelings. This story...

"Maybe Happy Ending" -— about decommissioned robots falling in love — took home the Tony award for best musical on Sunday night. The show had a six-season run in South Korea and opened on Broadway last fall. Korean-born author Hue Park co-wrote "Maybe Happy Ending" with Will Aronson. The World's Carolyn Beeler has more.

Wu Wei plays an ancient Chinese instrument with thousands of years of tradition that's been "updated" for a modern audience. It's called the sheng, or Chinese mouth organ. Reporter Caroline Feraday caught up with the artist at the Ojai Music Festival this past weekend.