The World: Latest Stories

April 21 is the expected deadline.

Who creates fictional languages and who bothers to learn them?

Killing your heroes.

How “Star Trek” has inspired generations of astrophysicists, engineers, and inventors.

What’s the deal with this new "Star Trek"?

The Starship Enterprise takes its rightful place — right up there with the Apollo capsule and the Wright brothers’ plane — at the National Air and Space Museum.

The accusations of sexual assault and harassment against Harvey Weinstein and other entertainment figures have inspired other victims of sexual crimes to speak out against their alleged perpetrators in politics and the news media. And the numbers keep growing. But, women veterans say the #MeToo awareness is largely invisible in the military.

The president of France wants the Bayeux Tapestry to be shown in England for perhaps the first time in 950 years. The ancient work of art depicts the conquest of England by Frenchmen in 1066. For some in England, that conquest still rankles.

His DACA protection and driver’s license are expiring in May, so Jasiel López worries that his drive to school could put him in the path of law enforcement.

The legendary French actress Catherine Deneuve is denouncing the #MeToo movement and defending sexual freedom. The World's Sarah Birnbaum says she's stuck in a feminism of the 1960s.

One French journalist sees his countrymen clinging to a "retro," sexist notion of seduction that includes pursuing women on city streets.

After a long fight, First Nations groups in British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest have won a ban on hunting grizzlies in the area. Now, instead of grizzly hunts, they're trying to build an ecotourism industry based on bear viewing and local native culture.

Questions over the cost of the new US embassy in London got us to thinking: what ever happened to the giant US embassy in Baghdad? The complex of buildings in the heart of the Iraqi capital once employed 16,000 people.

An 11-mile oil slick is creeping across the East China Sea as officials begin a cleanup efforts

Just 36 percent of Chileans have confidence in the Catholic Church — the lowest in all of Latin America — according to Chilean newspaper La Tercera.

"My Brother's Keeper," an image that went viral during the women's march following President Trump's inauguration, has become popular again one year later.

Climate change is impacting various animal species around the world, but painted turtles may face a particularly strange and formidable challenge.

A video of a 16-year-old Palestinian girl slapping and yelling at an Israeli soldier has proved polarizing.

The world is reacting to Trump’s vulgarity. But there’s a more serious conversation about immigration we should be having.

English is spoken with countless accents by both native and non-native speakers. But a hierarchy of accents persists. So whether you're from Thailand or Tennessee, accent reduction may be a goal.

Reports of vulgar, offensive outbursts by the president of the United States have real-world consequences. One is the impact on America's reputation overseas and its ability to lead and influence world events — its "soft power." That's the argument from Norwegian statesman Jan Egeland.

Countries around the globe struggled to come up with a good translation of Trump's vulgarity.

After the 2010 earthquake devasted Haiti, there was an outpouring of international support. Eight years later, most of those who rushed in to help are long gone. But many of those who remain are people with ties to Haiti, and ome of them started businesses that are getting some traction.

Two Rohingya men arrived in Boston. This is how they started their life in the US.

The UK will end its use of coal in power plants in less than a decade. It's hard to imagine the same thing happening in the US.

A letter signed by French actress Catherine Deneuve has sparked controversy surrounding the #MeToo movement. Here's how cartoonists responded.

Politicians in the nation's capital are debating immigration policy changes. Activists are lobbying for an urgent deal to protect those affected by the Trump administration dismantling the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.

How did a fictional character from a bread commercial score a #1 hit song and spark the '70s CB radio craze?

Theater designer Joshua Dachs on the history of the stage: how it came to be and how it's still evolving.

June Thomas looks at how sexual harassment is depicted on television.

A new analysis by the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center shows that oceans are suffocating as the number of dead zones is dramatically increasing.

Most companies and manufacturing facilities still don't measure water usage. But increasingly, many corporations are. It's paying off for the environment and companies' bottom-lines.

Actress Catherine Deneuve and 100-some other French women wrote an open letter to denounce the #MeToo campaign as becoming a witch hunt, saying the movement has created a backlash against men.

A pub in London, Ontario, is fighting a complaint of gender discrimination, after it gave a food discount to female customers. The pub’s promotion was highlighting the gender gap in pay.

In one instance, more than 200 pages meant to help state, local and tribal governments prepare for climate change have been removed.

After learning about sexually transmitted diseases for the first time in college, two young women decided to bring sexual health awareness to their native Iran.

Officials from the DPRK – North Korea’s official name — and South Korea are talking again. So, what exactly is North Korea after? If you listen to its own propaganda, the North's leader Kim Jong-un intends to win the Korean War.

Social media companies that fail to remove hate speech and fake news from their platforms could face up to €50 million in fines under a new German law. Some free speech advocates say they're worried social media companies will have free reign to censor users, while others say the law is a good first step to establishing regulatory guidelines for tech giants.

Charlie Hebdo spends $1.5 million a year on security measures. In their first issue this year, the satirical weekly opens up and asks “How long will Charlie Hebdo be able to sustain such a financial burden?”

Unless Congress can pass a spending bill by Jan. 19, the federal government will shut down.

Companies that refuse to pay men and women equally for equal work will be fined and publicly outed.

California is home to more than 10 million immigrants. And for those without citizenship, marijuana possession and use could be a deportable offense.

Michael Wolff's book, "Fire and Fury," about life inside Team Trump, is a top story and conversation point outside of the United States. The World gets the view from London.

RIYL, or recommended if you like, helps us understand tropes in genres like folk music. It's not perfect in this case, but the slight similarities in Beatriz and Stambul Naturil come out after a deep listen.

Haiti’s egg problem is a stark symptom — and a symbol — of the cycle of poverty in which the country has been stuck for decades, if not centuries.

In 2015, the water crisis in Flint, Michigan, exposed anew the problem of excess blood lead levels in children. Now a new investigation has identified over 3,800 neighborhoods around the US whose children have blood lead levels twice as high as the levels in Flint.

The Beaufort Gyre, a key Arctic Ocean current that traps huge amounts of ice and cold freshwater, is behaving strangely. When it eventually discharges its contents, the event could begin a period of sharply lower temperatures in northern Europe.

The Saudi prince who owns 1/3 of Twitter disappeared into the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton on Nov. 8 and has not been seen since. But the apparent incarceration of Prince Alwaleed bin Taleel — the 45th richest man on Earth and friend of billionaires Rupert Murdoch and Bill Gates — is not getting a lot of media attention. CNBC's Jake Novak explains why few are now talking about Saudi Arabia's Twitter Prince.