The World: Latest Stories

The role of race in role playing.

How Brendan Baker and Chloe Prasinos created a sound-rich world for Marvel’s “Wolverine: The Long Night.”

It might seem like a historical footnote, but China's Boxer Rebellion is as strange and tragic as anything in fiction.

High Point, North Carolina: The home to the world's largest home furnishings show is drawing a lot of international visitors.

Journalist Ronan Farrow takes a hard look at the decline of American diplomacy in his new book, “War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence.”

For more than a century, North Carolina and southern Virginia were the furniture-making centers of America. Foreign competition from Asia has taken most of that work away over — 60 percent of the jobs have disappeared since 1990. But North Carolina isn’t going down without a fight.

After weeks of travel across Mexico by bus, freight train and foot, more than 150 migrants from Central America — part of a caravan that has gained international attention — await their turn to apply for asylum at the Southern US border. Just how does the process work?

Toast Ale has been making beer out of surplus bread for two years. Now the British beer-maker is trying to get other breweries in on the game.

A new five-year US and British research project hopes to give policy makers a better sense of how much west Antarctica will drive rising seas.

More than 30 Chinese immigrants in New York say they have been the victims of a Chinese robocall scam. A local councilor suspects the number is much higher. The NYPD estimates $3 million has been stolen since December.

Counting crabs in Nantucket Harbor isn't glamorous work, but somebody's got to do it.

Billions of dollars in additional funds for scientific research, including renewable energy research, earth systems observations and sea level monitoring were tucked inside the $1.3 trillion omnibus spending measure that passed on March 23, but the Trump Administration is still working to gut environmental regulations.

Astronomers have an update on the mysterious, heavenly, purple-and-green ribbon of light dubbed “Steve.”

"We didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm," Mark Zuckerberg said during a company earnings call

The leaders of the two Koreas just made history. Now, it’s Donald Trump’s turn. The American president, who once dismissed the idea of negotiating with North Korea, is expected to do just that.

Stanford historian Ana Raquel Minan’s “Undocumented Lives” focuses on how policy shifts in both Mexico and the United States have changed the daily lives of Mexican migrants for decades.

The Tony Award winner makes the case for why middle age is the best.

Somewhere between theater and installation art, “Flight” tells a story of child migrants entirely through miniature models.

How the jazz great ditched guitar picks and created a masterpiece.

Salvadoran American poet Yesika Salgado breaks down her love letter to Los Angeles.

Since its publication by Simon & Schuster in 1973, "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has changed the way women view their bodies and how health care professionals view women's health. Here's a look at the impact the book has had globally.

Justices on Wednesday raised a series of questions that led many to suggest they did not see a coalition of enough judges to overturn President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright says we might not recognize the resurgence of fascism worldwide until it's too late.

A federal court ruling gives the government 90 days to explain why it changed the immigration policy — or to begin accepting new DACA applicants.

We’ve been hearing a lot about tariffs and trade wars. To look at how trade disputes can escalate, look at a 17-year-old skirmish between the US and Vietnam, and their fight over catfish.

What's the meaning of all those howls and growls? Is it language? This week on the podcast, NOVA's Ari Daniel explores how three species communicate.

Sen. Bob Menendez says he will support Mike Pompeo if the CIA director wins Senate approval and becomes America's next top diplomat. But the Democratic senator from New Jersey says there are good reasons for him to vote "no" on Pompeo's nomination.

Writer Edmaris Carazo writes about life after Hurricane Maria. "In less than a month and a half, hurricane season — the season that shall not be named — starts yet again."

Open spaces in greater London’s historic core have been protected since Victorian times.

Protests began last week after the government of President Daniel Ortega, a former leftist guerrilla leader whom critics accuse of trying to build a family dictatorship, launched a plan to overhaul the Central American country's welfare system.

It pumps us up when we’re at the gym, we dance to it at weddings and we sing along with it at concerts. But can music surround us with positive memories in our old age?

Distinguished oceanographer and leading climate scientist James J. McCarthy of Harvard University is a co-recipient of this year’s Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt wants to roll back fuel efficiency standards developed under President Obama. The decision would increase carbon emissions and pollution nationwide and also sets the stage for a possible legal battle with California, which wants to keep its more stringent standards.

A three-year study finds that land degradation and rapidly declining biological diversity has profound implications for humanity, putting billions of people at risk of living without adequate food, water and energy.

Pollution from coal plants has been linked to adverse health effects, including increased risk of cardiovascular problems and shortened lifespans. Now a new study suggests a reason why: coal plant emissions can effect telomeres — protective tips at the end of each string of DNA that are linked to aging.

The last people in Mexico who speak a language called Huave live on a remote stretch of the Pacific coast. But an ongoing conflict over clean energy has pitted the Huave against each other. Now some of the last Huave speakers no longer talk to each other.

Bren Bataclan is a Filipino American artist who first came to the US when he was 12 years old. Now, he's a professional artist who shares his immigrant experience through his paintings. He's also gives his paintings away to make people smile.

While the song has a universal message, its origins are much more complex.

This is the book of poetry that cast a shadow on America’s white picket fence.

This is the novel that gave slavery a bad name.

Raul Castro stepped down from office and Miguel Díaz-Canel assumed the presidency as the first Cuban president not to bear the Castro name in close to 60 years.

An Icelandic man arrested on suspicion of stealing about 600 computers used to mine the cryptocurrency Bitcoin escaped prison and fled the country on a commercial flight to Sweden.

The government of Japan estimates that there are a half million people there who are "hikikomori" — shut-ins who've barely left their homes for six months. But the number could be much higher.

Public health experts now say loneliness is a growing health threat. Amsterdam is taking the subject seriously.

The Russian government is moving to block the messaging app after the company refused to comply with a court order demanding access to user data. But so far, the ban hasn’t gone as smoothly as Russian authorities had hoped.

A small corner of the city is becoming a gathering spot for Mexicans who lived in the United States for years and now find themselves back in Mexico, by force or choice.

Italian actress and activist Asia Argento, one of the first women to accuse Harvey Weinstein of sexual abuse, came under a lot of backlash in her native Italy. Still, Argento says she doesn’t regret her action and hopes she can change some of Italy’s misogynist culture.

The CIA Director's views on climate change would be more in line with President Trump’s than those of his predecessor.

Unlike Western nations, China doesn't demand democratic reform or human rights standards when engaging with states with weak or failing governments. Syria is a case in point.