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UK’s justice secretary proposes getting rid of juries for some criminal trials
5:52
Artifacts from a sunken ship offer insights into trans-Atlantic slave trade
4:05
Thanksgiving Food Special
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49:08
An amazing summer weekend for soccer fans
7:22
An immigrant from Uganda finds an escape from racism
5:55
Cover art for albums of multiple artists included on The World's 2021 music playlist. Clockwise, starting from the top left image: 'Suba' by Omar Sosa and Seckou Keita; 'El Alimento' by Cimafunk; 'Deja' by Bomba Estereo; 'Seeking New Gods' by Gruff Rhys;
Music
Dance with The World, 2021 edition: A playlist
Benin Bronzes on exhibit at the British Museum.
Arts
Germany plans to return looted Benin Bronzes to Nigeria. Will other countries follow suit?
A pair of travelers are shown walking in the International Arrivals section of London's Heathrow Airport with one person pushing a cart carrying several bags.
COVID-19
For holiday travel, England uses COVID tests to reduce quarantines
A woman wearing a dark jacket and sunglasses is shown standing in front of a statue of her with her hand raised.
Protest
Statue of Black protester replaces toppled UK slave trader
A stenciled rat appears to be sneezing.
Arts, Culture & Media
Banksy unveils new pandemic-inspired art featuring rats in face masks
A group of four people sit in red chairs in an elegant room with green and gold-starred walls
Human rights
UK sanctions on Russians, Saudis are a ‘milestone’ for human rights, advocate says
A sign reads "no sex" in the red-light district in Amsterdam.
Jobs
Sex workers in Europe struggle to survive as clubs slowly reopen
People gather around a coffin on a boat
COVID-19
Mourning in the midst of a pandemic
A man raises his hand while walking through a crowd.
82-year-old British cyclist completes 1 million miles
two parakeets in a london park
Science
A colony of feral parakeets has invaded London
A couple of signs
Women & Gender
‘Transgender women are women,’ organizers say after controversy over women-only pond in London
Arts, Culture & Media
360 Staff Pick: Speech Therapy
Arts, Culture & Media
Experimenting with Laughing Gas
South London musician Cosmo Pyke
Arts
Cosmo Pyke and Frank Ulwenya capture the sound of travel with soul and surf rock
UK soul singer and guitarist James Hunter just released his second album for Daptone Records. It's called "Whatever it Takes."
Music
Soul captured James Hunter’s heart at a young age
Technology
Blue salt crystals on meteorites stoke conversation about extraterrestrial life
A rig (L) surrounds the top of one of the chimneys of Battersea Power Station as demolition work is carried out, in London, Oct. 2, 2014.
Economics
Why the UK has an easier time than the US divorcing from coal
A copy of "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" at a book store in New York
Books
‘Fire and Fury’ in Europe: ‘Everyone at the school gate was talking about it this morning’
London residents take a stroll in Hyde Park on an autumn day. A new study showed that taking walks in a park setting may be much more beneficial than a similar walk on a crowded city street.
Lifestyle
When it comes to walking in a park or down a city street, a study finds not all exercise is created equal
Singer Petula Clark poses in New York, January 19, 2012.
Music
British singer Petula Clark hits the road — maybe to a ‘Downtown’ near you
MC Afrikan Boy
Music
MC Afrikan Boy’s ‘Wot It Do?’ is a call to action
Boubacar Traore on stage. March 29, 2012 Paris,France
Music
The World’s music features this week: Boubacar Traore, Jyotsna Srikanth, and Elkin Robinson
UK musician Nick Mulvey
Music
Nick Mulvey’s latest album is a ‘response to these crazy times’ we’re living in
Author Kazuo Ishiguro poses for the media outside his home, following the announcement that he has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, in London, Britain, on Oct. 5, 2017.
Books
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel Literature Prize
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Culture
A church in Britain just took over a pub to keep it going
Ira Aldridge, as Othello, in battle armor, by William Mulready
Arts
African American Ira Aldridge, a Shakespearean actor in the early 1800s, honored in England
A sign for an electric car charging station at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland.
Economics
The UK joins a move to ban gas and diesel cars by 2040
French President Emmanuel Macron with U.S. President Donald Trump in Paris in July. After Trump's decision to pull the US out of the global Paris Climate Agreement, Macron invited scientists and others from the US and elsewhere to come to France to help s
Global Politics
US scientists answer France’s call to come ‘make our planet great again’
Dick Van Dyke speaking at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon
Arts
Dick Van Dyke apologizes for his ‘atrocious’ cockney accent in ‘Mary Poppins’
The Seed Sistas are herbalists hoping to bringing a wider appreciation of traditional English medicines.
Culture
England’s new psychedelic renaissance
A protester outside Kensington and Chelsea Town Hall. Anger has been growing over the authorities' handling of the tragedy at Grenfell Tower.
Culture
Protesters storm town hall as anger grows over London fire
Extensive damage is seen to the Grenfell Tower block which was destroyed in a fire disaster, in north Kensington, West London.
Economics
Desire to make London’s Grenfell Tower ‘prettier’ likely escalated the blaze
Irish singer Imelda May
Music
Irish singer Imelda May sheds her signature rockabilly sound and style
Darren Grimes, a young Brexit campaigner, making political calls.
Economics
This young, LGBT advocate isn’t your average Brexiteer
Emily Scott Robinson in Wimberley, Texas during SXSW
Music
The World’s music features this week: Emily Scott Robinson, Ondatrópica and music from outer space
Martin McGuinness coffin
Conflict
Not everyone is mourning Martin McGuinness, the IRA fighter turned peacemaker
Chuck Berry
Arts
Chuck Berry performed in Nottingham because he loved the city’s tikka masala
Cheese
Culture
Brexit causes uncertainty among Britain’s specialty cheesemakers
The Swan Theatre in London, one of the a generation of playhouses that appeared in the 16th century
Arts
Guess what? Shakespeare didn’t start the theater scene in England.
World Music at 30
Music
Happy 30th birthday, ‘world music’
Music
The World music features this week: Teitur, Faada Freddy and Hannah Williams & the Affirmations
Eljuri, one of the artists featured on The World this week.
Music
The World’s music features this week: Eljuri, Kady and Greg Lake
Dino brain
Science
That’s not a pebble. It’s a fossilized dinosaur brain.
This boisterous group jumped out at Oxford Circus. They walked toward me and started acting up for the cameras as they saw me taking pictures.
Lifestyle
What the London Tube looks like past midnight
Britain's Home Secretary Theresa May speaks during her Conservative party leadership campaign at the Institute of Engineering and Technology in Birmingham, England, on July 11.
Global Politics
Theresa May is about to become Britain’s next prime minister
Iceland's Aron Gunnarsson celebrates after the the Euro 2016 - Round of 16 game against England in Nice, France.
Sports
Iceland hands England an (embarrassing) exit
A workers counts ballots after polling stations closed in the Referendum on the European Union in Islington, London.
Global Politics
The geography of Brexit: What the vote reveals about the Disunited Kingdom
London welcomes Johnston100, the new typeface of the London Undergound.
Arts
Mind the font: London’s Underground is getting a new look
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Business
Cutting through cloth ceilings, Kathryn Sargent opens her own tailor shop on Savile Row
Your Guide to The Weirdest Places in the U.K.
Full Episode
“The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London.” By Nile Green.
Books
In 1815, six Muslims landed in London for the first time. Here’s what they can teach us.
The Selecter on stage
Music
Ska legend as political as ever, aiming at police who kill
Magna Carta outreach in China, where the government says the idea that rulers aren't above the law is a dangerous Western concept
Episode 5: Magna Carta in China
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The first page of Shakespeare's Hamlet, printed in the First Folio of 1623. (Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image)
Culture
Should we ‘translate’ Shakespeare into modern English?
DJ Jazzy Jeff speaks at an event where hip-hop DJs Grandwizzard Theodore, Grandmixer DXT and Grandmaster Flash are inducted into Guitar Center's RockWalk in Los Angeles on March 6, 2014.
Science
Science crunched Billboard’s charts to determine music’s most revolutionary year. It was 1991.