When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...

Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda have signed a peace deal brokered by the Trump administration. The World's Host ...

Today’s show focuses on families. We take a look at motherhood across the globe. Also, dads in Japan struggling to reform fatherhood. Meanwhile, Turkey names 2025 the “Year of the Family,” unveiling ...

She was once called “the most dangerous woman in Africa.” But Andrée Blouin described herself as an African woman “inflamed by injustice” on a mission to free her continent from colonial rule. She was ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan named 2025 as the “Year of the Family,” unveiling financial incentives for new parents and urging couples to have at least three children. Over the past two ...

The 80th anniversary of the Holocaust, Yom Hashoah, was on April 24. There are approximately 245,000 Holocaust survivors still alive today. While there will soon be no living Holocaust survivors, it’s ...

Mother’s Day is a moment to recognize moms in many countries across the globe. One book follows the lives of four women — in the US, Kenya, Finland and Japan — as they enter a new chapter of life as ...

Statistically speaking, for every baby born in Japan, two people pass away. The country’s rapidly shrinking population is, according to officials, a “national emergency” threatening its future ...

Toward the end of September last year, India achieved a historic victory in chess — winning the gold medal in both men’s and women’s Chess Olympiad in Budapest — considered the Olympics of chess. This ...

Caster Semenya won her first Olympic gold medal in 2009. But claims that her naturally high levels of testosterone should disqualify her have marred her career. At times, she has been effectively ...

A collective of female skateboarders in Bolivia has caught the attention of the news media all over the world. That’s partly because of the clothes they wear. But, as The World’s Tibisay Zea reports, ...

Hurling is a national sport in Ireland that dates back centuries. It’s also one of the fastest field sports in the world. The wooden sticks known as hurleys that are used in the game are made from ash ...