Inside a ferry, two rows of benches face large windows offering a view of a calm sea and distant coastline.

Tale of a Turkish ferry: A day working on Istanbul’s 175-year-old transport system

Transportation

Istanbul’s city-run ferry service reports more than 900 trips up, down and across the Bosphorus Strait every day across 53 piers. Annually, more than 40 million passengers board the ferries. As the city marks 175 years of service, passengers and workers reflect on their experiences.

People working at an outdoor indigo dyeing site, with fabric immersed in large vats and clothes hanging to dry in the background.

A glimpse into the lives of northern Nigeria’s craftsmen

Economics
Four people play cards at a table with flashlights, while a fire burns in the background on a dark street.

Cuba runs out of oil

Energy
A person in a white jacket and jeans poses in a sunny yard with construction materials in the background.

Families organize amid government funding cuts into rare disease research

Health & Medicine
A person wearing a backpack looks out at the ocean from a rocky coastline with pine trees and a cloudy sky.

How coastlines propelled ancient humans across the planet 

Out of Eden Walk
People stand inside a barn, looking towards an illuminated doorway, with sunlight streaming in.

Spain taps into immigrant and refugee communities to fill vacant shepherding jobs

Jobs

Older generations are retiring from their roles as shepherds in Spain, while young people no longer want to take up the profession. Now, a new school is training newly arrived immigrants — mostly from African countries — who already have experience working with livestock to take on the jobs.

A family sits on woven cots under a thatched shelter with a solar panel nearby, in what appears to be a makeshift outdoor setting.

Pakistan’s solar revolution

The Big Fix

Pakistan is in the middle of a solar power revolution. Over the past five years, the percentage of electricity generated from solar panels jumped from 2% to nearly 25%. Almost all of that growth has been driven by individuals buying their own solar panels, removing their homes or businesses from the centralized grid and generating electricity for themselves. For The Big Fix, The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler speaks with Naveed Arshad, director of the Energy Institute at Lahore University of Management Sciences, about why — and how — Pakistan has embraced solar power.

A group of people attentively listen indoors, near a "Radio France" sign, with one person holding a "Vive la Radio Publique" sign.

French public media is being targeted by the far-right

Media

France’s public radio and television are accused of overspending, misspending, favoritism and left-wing political bias, according to a parliamentary report released this week.

A young girl stands behind a blue fabric, with a blurred background of grass and a distant figure.

The humanitarian catastrophe the world continues to overlook

Conflict & Justice

Sudan’s civil war has triggered what many describe as the world’s largest humanitarian disaster. It’s a crisis that remains dramatically underreported, according to journalist Ann Curry. She won an Emmy for her coverage of the Darfur genocide in 2007 and recently talked with refugees fleeing into South Sudan. She tells The World’s Host Carolyn Beeler that while Western audiences closely followed the violence in Darfur nearly two decades ago, far fewer people today understand and appreciate the scale of the suffering engulfing Sudan.

A large crowd of people marching with banners, some raising their hands, in an outdoor protest or demonstration.

Anti-immigrant sentiment rises in South Africa

Conflict & Justice

As tensions over immigration reach a crisis point in South Africa, the Nigerian government has even offered to repatriate its citizens. The World’s Host Marco Werman speaks with professor Sethulego Matebesi about the growing protests and violence.

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