Did NSA spying give the US an edge at the Copenhagen climate conference?

Italy’s extra virgin olive oil isn’t always so virgin, or so Italian

Despite her murder conviction, Amanda Knox may never be extradited to Italy

How do you lead a government agency that’s been under intense scrutiny?

Will orcas be put on display at Sochi?

When you’re bringing Cuban students to the US, how do you choose?

For the first time in 50 years, a group of Cuban students just arrived in Florida carrying student visas

Music heard on the air for January 31, 2014

A 10-year-old Egyptian girl was taken to California — and lived as a slave

What’s ‘forbidden’ about this avant-Arabic ensemble from Vancouver?

See what this Olympic skier, pop star prince will be wearing to represent Mexico at Sochi

This blond and blue-eyed singer wows Hong Kongers with her flawless Cantopop

Will climate change kill the winter Olympics?

Montreal’s bike community rallies around its financially strapped bike sharing program, Bixi

Young entrepreneurs in Erbil, Iraq, are making a killing

Cuba opens a gleaming new port and bets that the US will lift its trade embargo

Syria peace talks in Geneva bring opposing sides face-to-face

You, too, can join the ‘Brazil Nuts’ on their 1966-km walk to the World Cup

Ukrainian president calls in ‘sick’ leaving historic crisis in the balance

Music heard on the air for January 30, 2014

What would Genghis Khan rock to if he could? Mongolian folk metal

Smoker? China, finally, says keep it out of the schools

It was just a tweet, but this former construction worker might go to jail for it

Music heard on the air for January 29, 2014

Farewell my lovely? The demise of the Mexican ‘water monster’ may have arrived

Scientists have created a sugar-powered battery for our smartphones

Why are Canadians cheering for the Seahawks to win the Super Bowl?

‘RagaSON’ is an album that fuses Indian ragas with Mexican Son Jarocho

A California statue stirs passions in South Korea and ire in Japan

In Turkey, reporting harassment can be worse than being groped

Why you shouldn’t mess with carbonara

Morocco will soon be home to the world’s largest museum devoted to photography

Recent arrests show China taking a harder line on all forms of dissent

How true is it when Obama says the war in Afghanistan is ‘ending?’

After a starring role in 2013, look for just a climate change cameo in this year’s State of the Union

Detroit’s existing immigrant communities feel left out by a new proposal to attract skilled immigrants

Music heard on the air for January 28, 2014

The State of the Union with The World’s newsroom

Why foreign video gamers are considered America’s new pro athletes

A novelist takes the pulse of Kiev’s Independence Square — and remains hopeful

‘The Butcher of Bosnia’ refuses to testify for a former ally at The Hague

Brazilians are taking New York City by storm — with their cash

The Khmer Rouge may be partly to blame for diabetes in Cambodia

A photographer focuses her lens on Indian dancers and their costumes

Why there’s a lot for Afghans to worry about

Pete Seeger woke up America with songs across several cultures

Tunisia is succeeding where Egypt failed

Why some residents of the besieged Syrian city of Homs are staying put

Why the popular trend of smoking hookah in Detroit has one doctor alarmed

Russia steps away from its Soviet past one cuddly Olympic mascot at a time

The world according to Gary Shteyngart in four languages

A friend of François Hollande says he wanted a ‘Chinese Wall’ between his public and private life

Sochi says goodbye to its Soviet era and hello to a modern Olympics

The new Olympic luge relay race has three sleds, four racers and a touchpad

Here’s why some Peruvians are giving up jobs as lawyers and accountants to become chefs

Music heard on the air for January 27, 2014

Daft Punk does something no other French music group has

No room for African or Indian languages in Disney’s multilingual version of ‘Let It Go’

Music heard on air for January 24, 2014

This is the most challenging downhill ski race in the world