Another year means another cheese rolling competition in the UK. Its held annually in Gloucestershire and sees competitors tumbling down a steep hill after a wheel of cheese. Host Carolyn Beeler reports.

Efforts to rescue victims of a Papua New Guinea landslide are facing extreme challenges. Authorities in the South Pacific nation, off the coast of Australia, fear as many as 2,000 people are dead, most of them buried under mud and rocks. The World’s Patrick Winn is following the story from Bangkok, Thailand, and discusses the latest with host Carolyn Beeler.

The war in Sudan between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese national army has reached a new critical juncture. The national army is encircled in the city of El Fasher by the RSF in the region of Darfur, which is an epicenter of ethnic killings. Regardless, the United Arab Emirates keeps supporting the RSF despite its actions. The World's host Carolyn Beeler talks with Cameron Hudson, a former National Security Council advisor and diplomatic aide on Sudan, about what the UAE's support is, why it continues, and why no one has stopped it.

Who doesn't have a fond childhood memory that's grown hazy with time, especially because there was never a photo to solidify it in the mind's eye? Well, now a Spanish AI company is creating the image on paper based just on the memory. The World's Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.

For more than 500 years, Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa has generated a lot of questions. What's she smiling about, for one. There's also the question of what's going on behind her — where is that? Well, geologist and art historian Ann Pizzorusso thinks she's finally solved a mystery of one of the world's most-famous paintings.

People lined up all day in huge numbers to vote in Indian-administered Kashmir on Monday with more than 36% turnout. This was the highest number of voters since 1996 in the region that's been plagued by terrorism and violence for decades. This is also the first election since the federal government in Delhi revoked the state's constitutional special status and autonomy. We report from Srinagar on what issues are at stake in the valley.

The children of immigrants sometimes make the trip to the US-Mexico border alone to reunite with parents already in the US. There is an immigration program that allows some to send for their children legally and safely. KQED's Tyche Hendricks reports on the Central American Minors program that could go away if President Biden loses the 2024 election.

The vessel known as the Energy Observer recently docked at Boston's Rowes Wharf. The experimental ship, powered by renewable sources, was outfitted to show that there are workable alternatives to fossil fuel. GBH's Craig LeMoult spoke with the crew before they returned to France.

The stunning news — less than a month before an election that will give Vladimir Putin another six years in power — brought renewed criticism and outrage from world leaders toward the Russian president who has suppressed opposition at home. After initially allowing people to lay flowers at...

The COVID-19 pandemic is entering its fifth year, and recommendations for how to handle it might be changing. The Washington Post reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is planning to get rid of a key recommendation for people who contract the virus to stay isolated for five days.

Listen to a related interview on The World with Dina Temple-Raston, host of the "Click Here" podcast, by clicking the audio player above. The US and partners around the world ousted Russian government hackers from a network of more than 1,000 home and small business routers, FBI Director Christopher Wray said on Thursday.

Yasser Sierra is a physical education teacher at a public school in Caracas, Venezuela. He has little time to rest. When he is not with his students, the teacher makes deliveries and takes people around the city on his old Suzuki motorcycle. He’s also a handyman at a local seminary. And he helps his father to sell textiles.

Ukrainian Volodymyr Tsema-Bursov used to play the tuba in a Ukrainian military band in Mariupol. But when Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February of 2022, his life changed overnight. Tsema-Bursov became a soldier in the 56th brigade, exchanging his tuba for a rifle. His time on the...

Murat Aktuğralı meets with other grieving parents — to discuss their legal case — in a small classroom next to the volleyball court where his son Aras used to play. In early February of last year, boys’ and girls’ volleyball teams from the town of Famagusta traveled to the eastern Turkish city of Adiyaman for a volleyball tournament.

When dispatch rider Efo Pascal recently returned to Accra on his motorbike from one of his delivery rounds, he came back with a dusty black sweater and helmet. “Since the whole of last week and this week, the dust is too much, and it is really bad. This is my first delivery today yet, see how dirty I look,” he said.

This chant has become a battle cry for the thousands who gather every Saturday night in what’s been dubbed “Hostages Square” in central Tel Aviv. Activists, musicians and family members of the 134 remaining hostages kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7 all take turns at the microphone.

In the US, companies across many industries, of all sizes, are struggling to find enough workers to fill open jobs. Recent figures show that there are 9.5 million job openings nationwide, but only 6.5 million unemployed workers, according to the US Chamber of Commerce. “Keep in mind that a lot...

Spain’s Canary Islands have seen a record number of wooden fishing vessels arriving over the last year — most cross the Atlantic from Senegal and Mauritania. In November 2023, an open, overcrowded boat barely made port on the island of El Hierro, where police and Red Cross workers awaited them.

The classical music world has lost a towering figure. Seiji Ozawa, who led the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) for nearly three decades, died this week at the age of 88, in his home country of Japan. The World's host Carolyn Beeler spoke to Brian McCreath, who broadcasts the Boston Symphony...

Frantz Fanon is a name that we hear periodically, often in the context of conflict between the haves and have nots. Fanon was born in the Caribbean in 1925. He went on to be a psychiatrist and author, and an anti-colonial revolutionary who inspired generations of thinkers and activists. A...