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Singer-songwriter Susan O'Neill is an award-winning artist from Ireland. She's hoping to break through to a wider audience with her new album 'Now in a Minute.' Susan O'Neill describes the inspiration behind it and plays a few tracks.

A year ago, Azerbaijan’s military took control of Nagorno-Karabakh. Some 100,000 Armenians fled the enclave — a region within Azerbaijan made up largely of Armenian residents. As The World's Daniel Ofman reports from southern Armenia, many families who fled Nagorno-Karabakh are still struggling to adjust to life in their new home.

In a rare expression of consensus, most of the UN General Assembly supports the establishment of an intergovernmental panel to help keep track of AI and guide policy discussions and recommendations. Ian Bremmer is the rapporteur who wrote the proposal on behalf of the secretary-general's AI advisory board and explains what the panel would do and why it could be important.

Over the past 30 years, hundreds of thousands of people have fled political instability and civil war in Somalia. Over that time, there's been something of a trend of displaced Somalis returning home to seek public office. As Maine Public Radio's Ari Snider reports, a man who's lived in Maine for over a decade is hoping he can make a difference by becoming president of Jubaland state in Somalia.

National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek's walk through China led him to encounters with tea pickers and unique stays at tea plantations. His consumption of tea was already high following his walk through India. But in China, Salopek experienced tea like no other. Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with him about the history, culture and traditions of tea in China.

Israel's planting of explosives in everyday low-tech items like pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon raises new security concerns. Will these kinds of things be added to lists of suspicious objects? And why were these very simple forms of technology used as explosive devices? Host Carolyn Beeler explores these questions with Richard Forno, assistant director of the University of Maryland, Baltimor...

More than 100 wildfires are stretching thousands of firefighters to their limits in northern Portugal this week. Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro declared a state of calamity for the hardest-hit areas late on Tuesday. Host Marco Werman explains that European Union officials are calling this an example of the continent's "climate breakdown."  

In the Indian city of Mumbai, millions of Hindus are just now wrapping up the annual 10-day celebration of Ganpati, a holiday dedicated to the elephant god Ganesha. The holiday has come under scrutiny, however, because of the incredible environmental damage that results from the 11 billion statues that are released into water bodies in the city and across the state each year. Many of the statues a...

Former Bolivian President Evo Morales and current President Luis Arce are at loggerheads. Arce has accused Morales of attempting a coup while Morales called on supporters this week to conduct a "March to Save Bolivia. " That demonstration turned violent on Tuesday when supporters of Arce intervened. Host Carolyn Beeler finds out why this political crisis has dragged on so long with Kathryn Ledebur...

The Restoration Ecology team at Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, has recently published new research that uses super-sensitive microphones to listen to and analyze the health of soil. The researchers say this new method could replace traditional ones, which are expensive, disruptive, and laborious. The World's Bianca Hillier reports.

Itaipu is one of the largest hydroelectric plants in the world. It provides electricity to 80 million people in Brazil and Paraguay. Not only is it huge, but it represents a unique model of cross-border energy cooperation. Michael Fox takes us on a tour of the dam, and explains the energy negotiations that help maintain the relationship between these two countries.

Peace talks between the warring parties in Switzerland have led to small improvements in access for humanitarian workers to move food into food-insecure areas. But as Leni Kinzli, a spokesperson for the UN's World Food Program in Sudan, explains, the crisis spans the entire country and things are getting worse.

Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler share a roundup of stories that may not have caught your attention.

Across the world, the credibility of elections is declining. That’s the conclusion of a new report by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance in Sweden. Despite a record number of elections happening this year, the report says fewer people are turning out to vote, and the results are increasingly contested. The World’s Tibisay Zea reports that the deterioration in electi...

A recent shortage of high-quality, low-cost rice in Japan has been pinned on the large number of tourists visiting the country, as well as hot weather exacerbated by climate change. But farmers and agricultural analysts say there's something else at play — a decades-old government program that pays farmers not to plant their rice. Hannah Kirshner reports on some rice farms in Kaga, a town in the H...

Lebanon is in crisis. On Tuesday, a coordinated attack targeted members of the Lebanese militant group, Hezbollah, that were carrying electronic pagers. The attack killed 12 people and injured more than 2,800 others. On Wednesday, a similar attack was carried out via walkie-talkie radios. It's left three people dead and more than 1,000 injured so far. Host Marco Werman speaks with Nizar Ghanem, re...

Several regions of the world are experiencing severe flooding. The African countries of Nigeria, Mali and Chad are coping with massive displacement as a result of flooding there. And in Europe, the current downpours are being called “historic” and “unprecedented.” Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler check in with people on the ground in each region to get the latest on shared struggles, as well...

The tiny landlocked South American country of Paraguay is one of the top soy producers on the planet. Soy is the country’s top export, and it accounts for a major chunk of the country’s gross domestic product. But the soy explosion has wreaked havoc on Paraguay's ecosystem and been a disaster for many small farmers, whose farms have been inundated with pesticides from neighboring soy plantations....

Coaches, players and fans see a parallel to the rise of youth soccer in the United States a few decades ago. There's now Major League Cricket in six US cities, and youth leagues are on the rise. Liz Neisloss reports from GBH in Boston. 

Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler review a mix of Canadian news stories that don't quite make the headlines.

Ryosuke Kiyasu is a respected heavy metal and jazz drummer in Japan who takes on a different style in his solo drum shows -—playing a snare drum with his teeth, kicking the drum around the room and often destroying furniture, among other things. He spends six months on the road and sells out small venues all over the world. Jamie Fullerton caught up with the drummer in Warsaw, Poland. 

In the Canadian Province of British Columbia, a new intervention measure will force people with concurrent mental health issues and drug addiction to receive treatment. In a recent press conference, the premier of British Columbia David Eby said this expansion of involuntary care is as much a public safety precaution as it is a public health measure. Host Marco Werman speaks with Andrea Woo, who c...

Across Lebanon and reportedly in Syria, Hezbollah operatives have been gravely injured and killed when their pagers exploded. It bears the hallmarks of a coordinated attack and is a major strike against Hezbollah. Hannah McCarthy is a foreign correspondent in Beirut, who explains the latest on what's happened as tensions in the Middle East climb to a new level. 

Nagorno-Karabakh is a mountainous enclave located in the South Caucasus. For decades, the territory has been the source of conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan. It is internationally recognized as part of Azerbaijan, however, ethnic Armenians have been living in this territory for hundreds of years. The World's Daniel Ofman reports on how the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh is still shaping the...

The Pantanal region in Brazil is the world's largest tropical wetlands and one of the most ecologically diverse places in the world. It's home to more than 4,700 species of plants and animals, including jaguars, capybaras — the world's largest rodent — striking cobalt-blue Hyacinth Macaws and anteaters. Many of these iconic species burned or had their habitat destroyed in this year's record-settin...