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What in the World

Helping you make sense of what’s happening in your world. Big stories, small stories and everything

Episodes

Total: 514

This weekend, traffic in a key part of Mumbai came to a standstill to make way for a convoy of VIP g

On Saturday evening someone tried to kill Donald Trump. The former president was giving a speech at

JailTime is a record label that aims to get prisoners away from crime and into the music industry. I

Over the last 18 months the world has gone pretty crazy about AI. Apple has been jumping into the sp

After the Covid pandemic, global tourism numbers have been on the rise again, but so are concerns ab

There’s loads of misinformation online about vaccines. For years, there have been false claims about

On Sunday night, a surprising exit poll was announced for France’s parliamentary election. It showed

Dating apps like Tinder, Bumble, Hinge, Match have changed the way many of us date, offering conveni

On Tuesday 2nd July, over 120 people died in a crowd crush at a religious event in the state of Utta

Hurricane Beryl has been tearing through the southeast Caribbean and is now moving towards Jamaica.

A growing number of private companies are wading into the global race for space dominance. Space X,

You might not live in the US but the value of America’s currency most likely affects how much you pa

The East Africa crude oil pipeline - also known as EACOP - is facing ongoing backlash. The pipeline,

Julian Assange, one of the world’s most notorious hackers and the face of the website Wikileaks, is

A pair of beluga whales have been evacuated from the besieged city of Kharkiv in Ukraine. They were

There’s been a lot of unrest in New Caledonia this year and it’s down to a proposed voting reform bi

Hajj — the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca — took place last week during an extreme heatwave. Off

Young Kenyans are leading demonstrations against a controversial finance bill, organising via TikTok

Hollywood has gone into overdrive trying to guess which celebrities are using weight loss drugs. Elo

For decades China has used pandas as a way to improve diplomatic relations with other countries. Now