The last remaining US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, New START, expires today, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals without legal limits on nukes for the first time in over half a ...

The sport of curling has fans around the world, despite its humble origins on frozen lakes in Scotland in the 1500s. But the fandom gets a massive boost when the Winter Olympics come around, when a ...

A curling team in a mountain town near Barcelona claims to have invented the sport, one year before the Scots, nearly 500 years ago. But the evidence for this is sketchy at best — as is the ...

The last remaining US-Russia nuclear arms control treaty, New START, expired on Thursday, leaving the world’s two largest nuclear arsenals without legal limits on nukes for the first time in over half ...

Famine conditions are spreading in Sudan’s Darfur region, according to the IPC, the group that monitors global hunger. The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Jan Egeland, head of the Norwegian ...

Oral” is a song musician Bjork composed more than 20 years ago, but it never worked for any of her albums. She came upon the composition around the same time that a critical report was published about ...

Hosts Marco Werman and Carolyn Beeler present a few items in the news today that you might have missed.

It’s been nearly two months since a shooting rampage at a Jewish festival on Bondi Beach took 15 lives. Mass casualty shootings are rare in Australia. This one has refocused attention on the country’s ...

National Geographic explorer Paul Salopek is on a global walk from Ethiopia to Tierra del Fuego, off the coast of South America. But such a walk wouldn’t be possible without help along the way. That’s ...

Buddhist monks embark on a Walk for Peace — from Fort Worth, Texas, to Washington, DC — to "raise awareness of peace, loving kindness and compassion across America and the world." ...

Last week, police in Nigeria’s largest city fired tear gas on people protesting the ongoing demolition of Makoko, an enormous ...

A month after US forces captured former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, some signs of change have emerged. Acting President Delcy Rodríguez has proposed a sweeping amnesty law that could free ...