The World: Latest Stories

Spain is one place where the need for workers is high — 24 million by 2050, according to the country's central bank. But the backlash against a record number of migrants arriving clandestinely is also up. Spain's prime minister has been visiting West African nations to shore up the fight against human smugglers, and trying to spread the recent arrivals around Spain equally, somet

Around the world, people visit butterfly exhibits and museums to learn about the important role these insects play in the environment. But where do these butterflies come from? Near the Arabuko-Sokoke forest along Kenya's coast, farmers are breeding butterflies for export abroad. They say it's helping to conserve their environment. The World's Africa Correspondent Halima Gikandi re

Earlier this summer at the Paris Olympics, Novak Djokovic and Zheng Qinwen took home gold medals in the tennis singles competition. But both of the newly minted Olympic champions are now out of the running at the US Open in New York. The World’s Bianca Hillier reports on the final Grand Slam of 2024.

The Israeli military has carried out intense operations in the occupied West Bank over the past 10 days. It has launched air and ground attacks, leaving a trail of destruction. The military says it going after militants. It says it has found weapons storage locations and dismantled explosives in the area. Palestinians say Israeli forces have killed at least 40 people, including a 1

A man in the south of France is now on trial for drugging his wife and then inviting dozens of men to rape her, over the course of nearly a decade. The case has shocked France and renewed calls for the country to redefine rape as sex without consent rather than intercourse committed by "violence, coercion, threat or surprise." Carolyn Beeler speaks to Anne-Cécile Mailfert, preside

When musician Keturah left Monza, a remote village in Malawi, she was just 14-years-old. She was a young teen with the big dream of recording a song. It's a musical origin story not unlike that other young prodigy who is now the biggest musician on the planet: Taylor Swift. But this is Keturah's story.

The NFL is a uniquely American sports league. But that hasn't stopped it from trying to expand globally. It's held games in Europe and Mexico previously and, this year, it will hold a game in Sao Paulo, Brazil, for the very first time. Host Carol Hills speaks with Lisa Delpy Neirotti, a professor of sports management and marketing at George Washington University, about the motivati

Tiny Easdale Island in Scotland — population: 62 — is hosting its annual World Stone Skimming Championship, in which hundreds of participants from around the globe compete. Hosts Carol Hills and Carolyn Beeler explain the rules for Saturday's contest, which include the requirement that your skimming stones come from the island, home of an abandoned slate quarry that is now floo

The Dachstein glacier in Austria is nearly 9,000 feet high. But scientists say that it's likely to melt completely by the end of this century. An artist from Cleveland, Ohio, was commissioned to create a work of art that would give the glacier a voice, with a warning about the impacts of climate change. Reporter Jamie Fullerton has the story.

Balneario Camboriu is a city in southern Brazil that likes to boast of having the biggest and the best. It’s known as Brazil’s "Dubai" for the rows of sky scrapers that line its beachfront. It’s home to the three tallest buildings in Brazil, which are also on the list of the top five tallest buildings in Latin America. It also has the most expensive real estate by average squ