The US Supreme Court effectively ended affirmative action policies in a 2023 ruling, stating race-based college admissions ...

Long trips often mean meeting many people, which can leave little space for some solitude. National Geographic Explorer Paul Salopek speaks with The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler about cybercafes in ...

Natalia Lafourcade is touring the US this year and speaks to The World about immigration and protests and how they’re ...

Japan’s elections on Sunday saw the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party lose its longstanding majority, while a ...

A cheeky ad campaign in New Zealand is trying to destigmatize herpes, a virus that affects 67% of the population. Celebrity Kiwis joke that they want their country to be the best place in the world to ...

Japan’s elections on Sunday saw the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party lose its longstanding majority, while a far-right nationalist party — founded on YouTube — gained ground. With an an ...

Climate change comes with a financial cost. So does figuring out how to address it. In this excerpt of DW’s Living Planet series, The World’s Host Marco Werman and DW’s Sam Baker unpack how economic ...

China began construction this weekend on what is expected to be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet is controversial, as it could disrupt a ...

Kazakhstan has one of the world’s largest Uyghur populations, estimated at around 300,000 people, and they’ve lived freely there for centuries. This is compared to the community of Uyghurs in nearby ...

An Irish man, Ken Hopkins, was known as “the accordion man” — a moniker that reflected his status among squeezebox aficionados. That’s because his life was defined by the instrument — as a player, ...

Upwards of 150 million lives have been saved by global vaccination drives since the mid-1970s. But now, vaccine rates are stalling and, in some places, they’re in decline. Professor Peter Hotez, ...

Brother Ali hit fame for his hard-hitting critique of racism and inequality in the US. His rap songs mix the political with ...