The World: Latest Stories

Millennials in ever greater numbers are coming to support a rapid transition to a clean energy economy. Tom Steyer, a philanthropist and "green" financier wants to ride this wave to help build a better future for the planet

One of the nation's leading preventive medicine panels recommended that pregnant women and women who have just given birth be screened for depression by a doctor.

Italians have spent decades considering whether to legalize civil unions for gays. This week Italian parliamentarians may finally act.

Concepcion Picciotto's vigil outside of the White House lasted for more than three decades.

Rio de Janeiro is a week away from its annual Carnival celebration and just months away from hosting the 2016 Summer Olympics. Now it finds itself battling the spread of a the Zika virus and calming the throngs who are expected to come to Rio.

St. Cloud, Minnesota, is home to a large diaspora of Somali refugees. But long time residents aren't happy about it.

The Zika virus is expected to spread across much of the Americas, but a vaccine is still years away.

The future of green energy is no longer seen as tied to fluctuations in the fossil fuel market.

Thanks to the lifting of US sanctions, weavers from Iran are prepping their fine rugs for the American market.

Chef Dominique Crenn, owner of Atelier Crenn in San Francisco, is from Brittany. It's a place she holds dear and describes as very rustic, very raw. She says it's like a painting: It's cold, it's windy, it could be rainy at times — it's life in itself, nature in itself. There is nothing manicured about it.

Police have now reached out to the Vietnamese community in Orange County's Little Saigon for help in recapturing the three inmates who escaped from the Men's Central Jail in Santa Ana, California

Erik Jensen was 17 when he witnessed a friend kill his mom. That led to a life sentence in prison — but now the US Supreme Court may have given Jensen a chance at eventual release.

After British media reported that Prime Minister David Cameron spoke in private about the "traditional submissiveness" of Muslim women, he was set straight by large group of smart (and sarcastic) women of the Islamic faith.

Denmark passed legislation enabling the country to seize assets from asylum seekers. Supporters say it treats the people just like Danes. But people fleeing war are a bit different from people in need of a job.

Sainkho Namtchylak is one of a kind. You can even hear in her speaking voice that buzz, that resonance that allows her body to make the sounds we in the west generically call throat singing. On her recent album, she teamed up with a Touareg rock ensemble from Mali, Tinawaren.

Maine is home to many Somali refugees in the US, but fitting in hasn’t always been easy. There's even tension among Somali communities — between those who arrived first and those who came later. That also plays out at public schools in Lewiston, Maine’s second largest city.

There are frequent protests in Calais, where the largest camp in France for migrants is located. But is was the appalling living conditions at Grande-Synthe, 30 miles away, that got the attention of Doctors Without Borders. Migrants there try to find the best ways to cope — for many men, that means becoming regulars in a local café. Some in the town even call it 'the Migrants' Café.'

Can Denver continue to redesign itself to create an economy of young creatives that avoids the pitfalls seen in other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco and New York?

A curious mix comes out of Bogota courtesy of Monsieur Periné. They're a gypsy swing/cumbia/dance act that makes you feel like there's a fatigue with more conventional music. The World's Marco Werman met members of the group this weekend.

The exact cause of more than a dozen strandings of sperm whales in recent days in the North Sea region is eluding scientists.

El Salvador has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the hemisphere. And advocates hope that El Salvador's recommendation that women hold off getting pregnant until 2018 will spur a conversation about the country's laws around reproduction in general.

Unlike some prominent actors of color, who are not receiving recognition from the Academy for roles they portray, Latinos aren't even getting the parts.

People are wearing parkas inside to deal with frigid temps after a cold snap hit Taiwan. Dozens have died. It's a once in a generation cold front passing through the island.

The government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi wasn’t going to leave anything to chance. It moved aggressively to pre-empt any efforts to commemorate the 2011 revolution.

Palestinian record stores are selling CDs with titles like "The lovers of stabbing" and "Jerusalem is Burning."

In today's Egypt, it's hard to find the same kind of hope that fueled the popular revolution in 2011 that brought down a dictator and inspired people around the world.

Despite the campaign rhetoric about global warming, there is one fact none of the presidential candidates can deny: Republicans and Democrats passed a federal budget at the end of 2015 which extended renewable energy tax credits for five years and lifted a 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. This compromise could have implications for the climate.

Wildlife in the West is often protected by authorities, but the animals' presence is not always appreciated by locals. In Montana, the hot dry summer meant not a lot of berries, and that, in turn, meant that many bears had to forage far from their normal territory.

College hasn't changed all that much since the 1950s. Except for the price tag. Arizona State University president Michael Crow explains why we should rethink college.

All of the Democratic contenders have called for government action to address climate change, but there seems to be little appetite for that among the Republican candidates on the stump in New Hampshire, where the first primary is just a few short weeks away.

Miguel Del Toral raised red flags about Flint Michigan's water in July 2015.

Big snowstorm, in case you didn't hear. Washington, Baltimore, and Philadelphia are getting totally slammed. Blizzard warnings. As much as two feet of snow could fall. It’s enough to send shivers down your spine.

What's the link between $8 cauliflower in Canada and the drop in oil prices? Why aren't low oil prices a boon for consumers?

Oil companies have been the richest companies in the world for more than a century. Can they transition to dominate the next century's fuel source too?

Amal Clooney is a successful British attorney, known for taking on human rights cases. This week she took on the case of an investigative journalist in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan, who’s in jail. The Azerbaijani government has counterattacked with personal attacks on her.

The radicals of ISIS espouse an extremist version of Islam. When historical facts or physical relics don’t jibe with that uncompromising vision, ISIS seeks to liquidate them. Sometimes, that means putting them up for sale.

The Casita Center for Technology, Science and Math is beating all other schools in its district on the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium tests, which evaluate Common Core standards for English language arts and literacy, as well as for math.

Ron Fournier, the senior political columnist at the National Journal, argues that Americans at all levels — politicians on down — deserve some of the blame for what Flint, Michigan, has beeen allowed to become.

An official investigation in the UK has concluded it's highly probable that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the assassination of an exiled opponent in London in 2006. Alexander Litvinenko took three weeks to die, in excruciating pain, after being poisoned with highly radioactive Polonium-210 by Russian agents.

A bakery owner from Massachusetts used her vacation days to volunteer in a refugee transit camp. She slipped aboard one of the decrepit trains that take refugees from Macedonia to Serbia and this is what she saw.

So, what would you call Planet 9? Now that scientists at CalTech have found evidence for a ninth planet in our solar system, it's your turn.

The Pakistani military's strategy to deal with militants is to pack the country's border with soldiers to prevent their entry. But a bloody extremist attack at a university in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday has citizens worried that militants are already inside the country.

Zika virus is a distant relative to yellow fever. It's native to Uganda and was mostly considered harmless. That is, until it came to Brazil, where it's being blamed for babies being born with unusually small brains. And now, paralysis.

Here's the story of the only Syrian on Korea's Jeju Island. He's asked for asylum there, but Korean authorities say the war back home isn't enough of a reason to get it.

Whether with refugees or recalcitrant dictators, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power has ambitious plans for how the last year of her tenure will unfold.

Essa Hassan is new to Mexico and the first participant in a project to give Syrians scholarships to study there. Thirty more students may be on the way.

Since October, a leaking underground natural gas storage facility near Los Angeles has released vast amounts of methane into the atmosphere, becoming one of the nation’s worst environmental accidents. Some experts believe this disaster may be a harbinger of what's ahead for these aging storage facilities.

Consumers should expect to see more and more electric vehicles soon. But with falling gas prices and plunging stock prices, who is going to buy them?