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The lettering of the old Packard Plant in Detroit is seen on a brick bridge viewed through the ruins of a window in the factory.

Abandoned and in decay, one of Detroit's iconic ruins is slowly being revived

Detroit is a city filled with ruins. Among the city’s most iconic ones is the Packard Plant. A Spanish developer in Peru has plans to revive it.

PRI's The World

An ad targeting world leaders, delivered on a big red bus

World leaders in New York City for the UN General Assembly will have a hard time avoiding a message calling for an end to the war in Yemen. It's on billboards and kiosks, and it's rolling around the city on buses.

A year after quake shattered their home and lives, this family rebuilds

The 7.1 magnitude earthquake that struck Mexico City and surrounding areas killed 369 people. Seven people died in the collapse of Wesley’s apartment building, including his wife, Elizabeth.

Puerto Rico’s eroding beaches spell trouble for coastal dwellers

Hurricane Maria’s waves clawed away at the sand, reducing the width of the broad beach by approximately 90 percent. But it wasn’t just that the familiar landscape disappeared — it left La Boca defenseless.

In limbo, some families in the US with H-1B visas begin to make other plans

The federal government is resolute that it will end a program that gives spouses of H-1B visa holders authorization to work. They just haven't said when.

Hear these voices from the front lines of climate change

What is it like to face climate change where you live? The World spoke to people from all over the globe at the recent Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco to learn how climate change was impacting them, and what they were doing about it.

GlobalPost

Despite the peace deal with Ethiopia, Eritrean refugees are still afraid to return home

Samuel Berhe, like many other Eritreans, fled the country some years ago to escape mandatory national service, which the government made indefinite following the 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia. The war cost the countries an estimated 100,000 lives, while conscription created a generation of Eritrean refugees.

'You don’t know when they will come for us': Marawi's LBGTQ community says no safety in conservative city

As the city struggles to recover from the Marawi siege, a five-month occupation by a pro-ISIS group that killed civilizations and destroyed homes, many in the LGBTQ community say the city is now too dangerous a place for them.

Help is scarce for Rohingya children with intellectual disabilities

The Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar to camps in Bangladesh. Many are children, some of whom struggle with intellectual disabilities. But there aren’t enough medical experts to treat them.

In South Korea’s war panic economy, sales thrive on nuclear angst

In South Korea, when tensions flare in the north, business picks up for those who supply preppers.

Tested but untreated: How Uganda's new AIDS efforts are leading to a drug shortage

With the country’s HIV/AIDS rate expected to rise and clinics struggling to supply medication to a growing pool of patients, some say Uganda is jeopardizing the gains made in the last two decades and leaving the country vulnerable for a renewed epidemic in the coming years.

Across Women's Lives

Today, women's clothing in Afghanistan includes far more than the blue burqa

Fashion is powerful. It can be used as a political tool. It can be a statement about identity. It can also be healing. In Afghanistan, it is all of that and more.

She saved a pregnant woman’s life. Now, she works to make childbirth safer for all Afghan women.

The Taliban forbids women to leave the house unless they are accompanied by a male relative. Feroza Mushtari, who was a teenager at the time of the Taliban takeover, defied that rule to save a pregnant woman's life.

After surviving an attack on their school in Kabul, these students show that ‘education prevails’

In 2016, students at the American University in Kabul watched as gunmen opened fire on their school. More than a dozen people were killed and many more injured. But the attack didn't stop students from pursuing their dreams.

Scotland tries to combat poverty by providing free menstrual products

Victoria Heaney started the #FreePeriodScotland campaign that caught the attention of the Scottish government and, ultimately, helped spur a conversation across Scotland about the fight against period poverty.

Despite the risks, holdouts refuse to abandon Ukraine's radiation hotspots

Outside of Chernobyl's "exclusion zone," things have never returned to normal. But life goes on.

Global Security

The razor wire that separates Europe from Africa might be coming down

The changes come as migrants’ pathways across the Mediterranean evolve to make Spain the busiest gateway into Europe.

At a clinic for torture survivors, an Iranian refugee works to build a new life

Behzad says he was imprisoned and tortured in Iran for four years before fleeing to Greece. In Athens, a special clinic for torture survivors, run by Doctors Without Borders, is helping people like him rebuild their lives.

Civilians say 'time to say no for war' after dozens of Yemeni children die in school bus attack

Yemenis mourned the deaths of about 30 children following a Thursday air strike on a busload of school boys.

How a diplomatic crisis among Gulf nations led to a fake news campaign in the United States

Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have long spent huge sums of money on lobbyists to win favor with those in power in the United States. But when the two countries launched a blockade of fellow US ally Qatar last year, organizations with ties to their governments tried something new: fake news.

US risks fallout from UAE's prisoner abuse scandal in Yemen

A new report confirming prisoner abuses in southern Yemen is amping up concern in Washington, DC. "It's just going to further radicalize the Yemeni people," Senator Chris Murphy says.

Global Nation

In limbo, some families in the US with H-1B visas begin to make other plans

The federal government is resolute that it will end a program that gives spouses of H-1B visa holders authorization to work. They just haven't said when.

Detroit welcomes immigrants to spur the city’s revival

In today's Detroit, there are many signs of a comeback: new businesses, stores, less urban blight and more entrepreneurs. And immigrants are bringing new energy to the city.

Before hurricane season began, feds moved $10 million from FEMA to ICE

The Department of Homeland Security notified Congress earlier this summer that it was transferring $10 million from FEMA to ICE to pay for the detention and transfer of undocumented immigrants. The World speaks with Mary Small of the nonprofit group, Detention Watch Network.

What happens when you let everyone in the world audition for a Hollywood studio film

Three people who participated in the viral #CrazyRichAsiansCasting campaign earned their first ever parts in a big motion picture. Here’s why director Jon M. Chu thought it was necessary to scour the globe for Asian actors for “Crazy Rich Asians.”

His brother was murdered for wearing a turban after 9/11. 15 years later, he spoke to the killer.

What does it sound like to forgive someone who murdered your brother? Hear Rana Sodhi’s full conversation with Frank Roque, who committed the first known hate-driven murder after 9/11.

Livable Planet

At sea and in the sky, scientists brave wicked weather to explore a key ocean current

The global circulatory system is incredibly complex, and parts of it, like the North Icelandic Jet, are barely understood. That's why these scientists are in Iceland in the dead of winter.

Britain built an empire out of coal. Now it’s giving it up. Why can’t the US?

The UK will stop burning coal for electricity by 2025. The US, meanwhile, is trying to end the “war on coal.”

A Wyoming town looks beyond coal ... to new uses for coal

Coal has driven Wyoming’s economy for decades. The state sits on hundreds of years of coal reserves. But the world is slowly moving away from coal, leaving some towns at a crossroads.