The World: Latest Stories

The US military is closing its Yongsan military base in the South Korean capital. For people who grew up around the base, it was where they learned about American music, culture and food. But it's also leaving behind environmental problems.

There was a lot of great music released in 2017. The World host Marco Werman, director April Peavey and FutureFolk producer Brandi Fullwood all picked some of their favorite albums.

Russia on Tuesday rejected concerns that the decision to bar opposition leader Alexei Navalny from running against President Vladimir Putin in a March election could undermine the vote's legitimacy.

The Noh family fled Iraq when ISIS invaded in 2014. After crossing the Mediterranean in a rubber dinghy, they reached the Greek island of Lesbos, and then mainland Europe. After receiving asylum in France, they are building a new life in a unfamiliar place.

As Assumption Abbey’s monks grew old and few, they found few young Americans willing to take up the cloth. So they looked abroad.

On Sunday, the president of Peru pardoned the former leader Alberto Fujimori. Critics are calling it a quid pro quo.

Have you ever heard the Finnish word for “the feeling when you are going to get drunk home alone in your underwear with no intention of going out”?

The reason why some people of Caribbean descent enjoy a Jewish staple over the holidays.

Brain Pickings founder Maria Popova and Pulitzer Prize winner Deborah Blum join Ira Flatow to run down the year’s best science books.

A tiny invasive bug loves the cane that grows along the mouth of the Mississippi River. Can it be stopped?

Science Friday’s Xochitl Garcia rounded up the coolest books for young scientists ages 0 to 11.

The Trump administration's Justice Department is trying to halt a lawsuit brought by a group of young people alleging the US government violates their constitutional rights by not acting on climate change.

If you're traveling abroad from a US airport this holiday season, you may have to go through a new type of security check: a facial scan.

It took pressure, and lots of it, to get Iranian cartoonist known as "Eaten Fish" out of the Australian-run detention camp and it was social media that started the domino of pressure and activism that finally freed him.

Many people look at a Christmas tree and don’t see much religious meaning. But the history of the Tannenbaum, as they call it in Germany, says otherwise.

For the past 13 years, every Christmas I have looked in confusion as my non-Christian friends head to Christmas tree lots in search of a Christmas tree to bring home. This year, for the first time, I wanted to find out what it was like.

The Kenya-born Harvard scholar Calestous Juma saw innovations and opportunities bubbling up in African economies where others saw only poverty and despair.

The Old Masters in Italian museums pull in the crowds. And those waiting in long lines to see them rattle off their names: Michelangelo, Botticelli, da Vinci, Raphael, Titian. But if you ask them to name women artists from the Renaissance, most have trouble even coming up with one name.

Cuba leans on cheaper home visits and health surveys to catch health problems early on. Could this approach help parts of Chicago, where nearly 15 babies per 1,000 do not reach their first birthday?

Most Puerto Ricans don't have a Christmas tree or ingredients for their favorite holiday dishes this year. But many are determined to mark the holiday in high spirits.

Britain's movie theaters are becoming more and more popular with both those who suffer from dementia and their caregivers.

US President Donald Trump says the GOP tax bill will be a "big, beautiful Christmas present" to Americans. But some worry about the effects it could have on Puerto Rico's economy.

Arizona needs Mexico. Unlike the United States as a whole, Arizona actually has a trade surplus with its southern neighbor and tens of thousands of Arizona jobs rely on cross-border trade.

“Sideways” director Alexander Payne shrinks the world’s problems in “Downsizing.”

The mysterious story of Bobbie Gentry and her famous song “Ode to Billie Joe.”

It may be the most popular American film of all time, but, like other Confederate monuments, "Gone With the Wind" is undergoing some reappraisal in light of heightened racial tensions and awareness in the US.

On March 26, 2015, Saudi Arabia entered the Yemen civil war with support from the US and the UK. A Western reporter and Yemenis from the north to the south tell how warring sides are dug in and civilians are becoming accustomed to the fighting.

This week Cyril Ramaphosa was elected the new president of South Africa's African National Congress. It was seen as a modest victory for reformers. But will it be enough to restore young South Africans' faith in the party and country?

The artwork of war detainees in Guantánamo Bay is now on part of an art exhibit in New York City.

Bitcoin's energy draw is probably somewhere between Google's and Bulgaria's.

Cardinal Bernard Law has been described as "a titan of 20th century American Catholicism." But he will be remembered for one thing: covering up child sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.

Venezuela used to have a thriving Jewish population. But many of them fled violence and economic collapse. One couple was settling into their new life in San Juan when Hurricane Maria hit.

A spokesperson for former British Prime Minister David Cameron said the fund will “invest in innovative and sustainable growth opportunities in both the UK and China to create jobs and further boost trade links.”

Despite a career that goes back more than six decades, British singer Petula Clark still has it. With such a long career, one would think that hopping on a bus, traveling across the US, would be old hat by now. But Petula Clark is in the midst of her first tour of the US.

Algodón Egipcio’s “La Estrella Irregular” is an electronic-pop lullaby that explores a medley of dreamy, bright and chopping tropical sounds. But the song also gives a poetic and experienced perspective on the ongoing crisis in Venezuela.

What are the words and images that best describe this past year? And why do some people think "whom" is obsolete?

As water levels rise, residents of Miami's Little Haiti fear rising rents. Will people fleeing the beach push them out?

Net neutrality advocates say the FCC's vote to scrap Open Internet rules passed by the Obama administration in 2015 will have a disproportionate effect on small and independent content providers and websites catering to communities that are underrepresented in the media.

Henry Lemus Calderón, 19, is incarcerated in a high-security unit, and he can’t figure out why. Though in the country illegally, he was never arrested for any crime and never ordered removed, and he bristles at the notion of being considered in need of high security.

On Monday, President Donald Trump named Russia and China as top rivals. But Laicie Heeley, host of PRI's new podcast "Things that go boom" says the speech was sometimes inconsistent with the written National Security Strategy document submitted to Congress by his advisors.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called President Donald Trump on Sunday to thank the CIA for a tip, which he says thwarted a terrorist attack in the Russian city of St. Petersburg. How unusual is this kind of intelligence-sharing between rivals?

The Congolese collective KOKOKO! repurposes typewriters, coffee cans, CPUs and more to create afropop-infused experimental music.

The teen and his advocates insist that he's being swept up and threatened with deportation because of teenage bravado, rather than actual evidence.

Christmas in Britain has many similarities to other European and North American countries: Santa Claus, Christmas trees, turkeys and awkward family gatherings. But there is one extra element: mince pies

Reporting on sexual harassment claims can be difficult. Here's how some journalists are taking that challenge on.

While even good human relationships can be complicated, a family dog will unfailingly greet its members with simple joy. Now, a new study recently published in the journal Scientific Reports finds that, along with the blessing of uncritical friendship, household dogs can actually help people live longer.

Scientists recently revealed that nine rumored Yeti samples from the Himalayas and Tibetan Plateau region were — not quite.

Hampshire is the first residential college in the US to source its electricity entirely from renewable energy.