Natalia Lafourcade is touring the US this year and speaks to The World about immigration and protests and how they’re ...

Japan’s elections on Sunday saw the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party lose its longstanding majority, while a ...

A cheeky ad campaign in New Zealand is trying to destigmatize herpes, a virus that affects 67% of the population. Celebrity Kiwis joke that they want their country to be the best place in the world to ...

Climate change comes with a financial cost. So does figuring out how to address it. In this excerpt of DW’s Living Planet series, The World’s Host Marco Werman and DW’s Sam Baker unpack how economic ...

Japan’s elections on Sunday saw the country’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party lose its longstanding majority, while a far-right nationalist party — founded on YouTube — gained ground. With an an ...

Kazakhstan has one of the world’s largest Uyghur populations, estimated at around 300,000 people, and they’ve lived freely there for centuries. This is compared to the community of Uyghurs in nearby ...

Upwards of 150 million lives have been saved by global vaccination drives since the mid-1970s. But now, vaccine rates are stalling and, in some places, they’re in decline. Professor Peter Hotez, ...

An Irish man, Ken Hopkins, was known as “the accordion man” — a moniker that reflected his status among squeezebox aficionados. That’s because his life was defined by the instrument — as a player, ...

China began construction this weekend on what is expected to be the largest hydroelectric dam in the world. The project on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet is controversial, as it could disrupt a ...

The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with Istanbul-based journalist Ruth Michaelson about unrest in Syria amid clashes ...

The Israeli airstrikes on Iran have stopped — at least for now. But for many Iranians, the real struggle is just beginning: ...

Protests and passionate debate have long been hallmarks of college life. But university campuses across England have recently ...