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American-Palestinian degree
March, 2009
A small liberal arts college in New York is taking on an unusual project. It's about to launch the first American dual-degree program with a Palestinian university. Correspondent Daniel Estrin has the story.
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Learning Spanish in Mexico
March, 2009
Mexico is so much more than the stories of violence that have recently grabbed headlines. Katy Clark traveled there recently to see how many Americans are learning Spanish in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca
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Lorne Matalon's Mexico stories
March, 2009
Lorne Matalon has been reporting from Mexico for The World since November 2007. He has covered the Mexican 'war on drugs' from the frontlines, going on patrol with the Mexican armed forces. Lorne also covered immigration and economic stories from south of the border.
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Sudan war crimes warrant
last update: March 25, 2009
The International Criminal Court has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. But the court in the Hague stopped short of accusing Omar al-Bashir of genocide. He denies the charges and has dismissed any ICC ruling as worthless.
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Panama fights cervical cancer
March, 2009
Karen Weise reports on a new program launched in Panama to vaccinate all ten-year-old girls against HPV -- a sexually transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer. Panamanians have almost universally embraced the idea. But the government isn't saying the virus is spread by sex, and that's causing ethical concerns.
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Juárez border war
March, 2009
The World's Lorne Matalon reports that on-going violence in Juárez has brought Mexico's war against drug trafficker's right up to the U.S. border.
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Veterans' stories
March, 2009
British historian Peter Barton unearthed information about the identities of WWI casualties, The World's Carol Hills spoke with anchor Lisa Mullins about her grandfather's letters home from WW I, Marco Werman talked with World War II veteran Charles Shay who was honored with the medal of the French Legion of Honor in 2007, and other veterans's stories.
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Color Initiative
March, 2009
In the 'Color Initiative' series Phillip Martin examines complex global issues of politics, culture, history and society through the framework of human perceptions and experiences related to color.
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Simon Winchester's Atlantic World
March, 2009
British author and journalist Simon Winchester is currently researching a new book, which he calls a "biography of the Atlantic Ocean." And as his research takes him to weird and wonderful parts of the globe, he's been checking in with us.
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Tibet anniversary
last update March 11, 2008
The Dalai Lama has launched a fierce attack on Chinese rule in his Tibetan homeland, saying his people had experienced "hell on Earth". His words came on the 50th anniversary of a failed uprising against Chinese troops which led to his exile.
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Lost in the Amazon
February, 2009
Explorer Percy Harrison Fawcett set out in 1906 to chart the interior of the Amazon. But in 1925, Fawcett disappeared - on a search for a fabled lost city. Journalist and author David Grann chronicles Percy Fawcett's quest in a new book called 'The Lost City of Z'
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North Korea's strategic arsenal
last update February 24, 2008
North Korea appears to be preparing to test-fire its longest range missile, apparently capable of hitting the United States, reports say. Meanwhile talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program have reached a stalemate.
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Dealing with Cambodia's past
February, 2009
In the 1970s, the Khmer Rouge turned much of Cambodia into "killing fields." Now, 30 years later, an internationally backed tribunal is trying five officials of Pol Pot's regime.
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China and Africa
February, 2009
China's president is visiting Africa for the fourth time. His visit reinforces China's strategy of developing close economic ties with African nations as Laura Lynch reports from Zambia.
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Darwin bicentennial
February, 2009
It's the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth - to celebrate, The World is putting together a continuing series of stories, a special podcast, and links to lots of Darwin stuff
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South Africa land reform
January, 2009
Post-apartheid South Africa promised to redistribute farmland seized by whites decades ago. Progress has been slow, and tensions are building over a growing turf battle, as Laura Lynch reports.
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BBC aid appeals
January, 2009
Britain's Sky News has joined the BBC in deciding not to broadcast a charity appeal for Gaza, despite mounting political and public pressure for them to do so. BBC Director-General Mark Thompson defended the decision, saying it would jeopardize the BBC's impartiality. Watch videos of aid appeals the BBC did support in the past.
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War in Congo
last update January 23, 2009
Laurent Nkunda, leader of the strongest rebel group in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested in Rwanda. During the fighting between government and rebel troops in 2008, 250,000 people were displaced in the strife-torn region around Goma, in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Khartoum barbershop
January 2009
President Obama downplayed his foreign roots while on the campaign trail. Now his African heritage, and multi-ethnic family are part of the presidential narrative. Mr.Obama doesn't appear to have family in Sudan. But that doesn't mean people there aren't claiming him for their own. Some are even borrowing his name to drum up a little business. Heba Aly has the story
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Katy Clark's Guantánamo stories
January 2009
President Barack Obama has ordered the closure of the Guantánamo Bay prison camp as well as all overseas CIA detention centers for terror suspects. Katy Clark has been reporting on the Guantánamo Bay detention facility for The World since 2002.
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Inaugural poems
January, 2009
Poets from Kenya, Germany, and Hungary offered poems for the occasion of Barack Obama's inauguration as President.
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Indian dance guru
January, 2009
Kathak is one of eight forms of Indian classical dance. One of kathak's foremost practitioners is Pandit Chitresh Das. The Indian dance master came to the United States in the 1970s and began teaching young Americans. Now he has six schools in California.
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"Go China!"
January, 2009
China's been experiencing a lot of national pride in the past year, especially with the summer Olympics.Recently a Chinese school teacher posted online a video of his students chanting a nationalistic poem that he wrote. Instead of praise, he was slammed by critics, who said that kind of jingoistic pride is dangerous.
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