More than 4,000 Americans applied for British citizenship in the first half of this year — a record number and a 39% increase ...

As a ceasefire to end the war in Gaza goes into effect, there have also been gun battles inside the Gaza Strip between Hamas and rival groups. Also, Kenyans mourn the death of key opposition leader ...

As Israelis and Palestinians celebrated the ceasefire in Gaza, a video made the rounds on social media. It appears to show Hamas gunmen executing a group of eight men in the street in Gaza City, ...

It takes an average of four to six months for a thru-hiker to complete the Pacific Crest Trail. Julie Brock however, a 59-year-old runner from Australia, finished in just over two months. The World’s ...

Revered Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, who died this week at age 80, played a pivotal role in institutionalizing multiparty democracy and shaping Kenya’s constitution. But he was also known as ...

The Terada Honke sake brewery is like a shrine to the microorganisms brewers must cooperate with to make sake. The workers there sing traditional songs as they pound steamed rice to make a ...

Every year, a sleepy town 50 miles north of Lagos, Nigeria, holds the World Twins Festival. It’s a celebration of the community’s unusually high rate of twin births — about 50 twins per thousand ...

Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with journalist Christo Grozev at The World's Boston studio about his ongoing investigation into ...

The World's Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Victoria Pihl Sørensen, a Danish historian who has studied Denmark's IUD program ...

Two years of grief and anger in Israel turned into euphoria today with the release of 20 living hostages who survived ...

When writer Robin Reif’s adopted daughter wanted to know where she came from, she decided it was important to go back to China to find answers for her daughter. So, they flew 7,000 miles to try and ...

In Mexico, authorities have deployed the military — alongside civilian personnel — to reopen roads in more than 300 communities. Torrential rains, flooding and landslides were seen in five states near ...