China is spending billions of dollars to improve its international image, yet it is also ramping up anti-foreigner rhetoric.
This year at Peru’s annual cajon festival, Peru paid homage to Peruvian master percussionist Alex Acuña. He’s been drumming for more than 50 years, with musicians from Elvis Presley to Weather Report. Mitra Taj sent us this audio snapshot.
Join The World’s Alex Gallafent and Rhitu Chatterjee in a discussion about caste.
Are you an American plumber or electrician looking for work? Or perhaps a civil engineer? Want to possibly double your salary? One caveat with this job offer: You have to be willing to relocate 10,000 miles.
While the Olympic torch continues its tour of Britain, some of the torch-bearers have put their torches up on auction sites such as eBay.
Revolutions, it is said, need the support of the middle class to be successful; often they’re led by the middle class. In Egypt, a year after Tahrir Square, a bank employee still holds out hope that the promise of the anti-Mubarak revolution will usher in a more democratic, tolerant society.
Revolutions, it is said, need the support of the middle class to be successful; often they’re led by the middle class. In Ukraine, seven years after the Orange Revolution, a TV producer wonders whether it was worth it, as her nation slips back into its corrupt, pre-revolutionary past.
More than 90 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack at a military parade rehearsal in Yemen’s capital, Sanaa, defense ministry officials say. An al-Qaeda source told the BBC one of its members had carried out the attack.
Tens of millions of Egyptians are preparing for the country’s first competitive presidential elections. 13 candidates are vying for the job.
In 1944, Britain introduced the Eleven Plus exam. School students age 11 who passed this mandatory test could enroll in elite secondary schools that prepared them for college. The thinking was that bright working class kids would have a path to a middle class education and career. Those who failed the exam would go to regular schools, with the expectation that they would leave school for good at 15. This two-tiered system was criticized for writing off all but the smartest kids, and it was scrapped in the 1970s. Now however, the Conservative-led government is starting to re-introduce it.
Monday is the anniversary of the 1864 massacre of the Circassians, an ethnic people from the North Caucasus. Their descendants are scattered around the world, including in northern New Jersey. Now they are pushing to go back to their cultural home. Can you name it?
Mannasseh Phiri, our DJ in Zambia, plays us a couple of tracks from Hugh Masekela’s latest album “Jabulani.” The album is a collection of traditional South African wedding songs Masekela heard growing up in the townships of Johannesburg.
Moody’s ratings agency have downgraded Spanish banks on Friday, as talk mounts of a financial meltdown in Europe. The World’s Gerry Hadden reports from Barcelona.
Italy is experimenting with small drones to track down mafia eco-criminals involved in illegal dumping. Reporter Angelica Marin reports from Naples.
Domincans living abroad may help decide the outcome of this weekend’s presidential election back home in the Dominican Republican. The campaigning is fierce in New York City’s Washington Heights, where many Dominican ex-pats live.
