The World is broadcast on ABC News 24 at 10pm AEST. Beverley O'Connor brings you the day's national and international news, with reports from the ABC's network of reporters and international correspondents.
Monday to Friday, The World offers a forum for extended news stories, interviews and insights from around the world.
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The Afghan Taliban has declared its new leader as Haibatullah Akhunzada, confirming the death of former leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a US drone strike.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, afghanistan
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The former president of the Maldives Mohamed Nasheed has been granted refugee status in the United Kingdom.
Topics: world-politics, law-crime-and-justice, maldives
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The Russian Athletics Federation has said that any of its athletes caught using performance enhancing drugs will be barred from competing at this year's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Topics: drugs-and-substance-abuse, sport, doping-in-sports, russian-federation
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The United Nations is calling on governments around the world to pass laws to outlaw the possession of wildlife that has been smuggled.
Topics: law-crime-and-justice, world-politics, austria
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Auskar Surbakti speaks to University of Baltimore associate professor of law Dr David Jaros, as a police officer is acquitted of all charges in the case of Freddie Gray.
Topics: courts-and-trials, race-relations, united-states
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As Chinese banks look down the barrel of a staggering $1.7 trillion worth of losses, Auskar Surbakti speaks to economist Song Seng Wun from CIMB Private Banking.
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Auskar Surbakti speaks with the University of the Philippines-Diliman's Dr Aries Arugay, a visiting scholar at the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, about the future of firebrand Philippines leader Rodrigo Duterte.
Topics: government-and-politics, world-politics, catholic, philippines, asia
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Described by dissident artist Ai Weiwei as "the most important Chinese intellectual of his generation", Auskar Surbakti speaks to writer Xu Zhiyuan about his new book Paper Tiger: Inside the Real China.
Topics: books-literature, government-and-politics, china, asia
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The United Parcel Service (UPS) has signed a partnership with robotics company Zipline and the Vaccine Alliance, Gavi, to use unmanned aircraft to deliver life-saving vaccines and blood to remote parts of the world.
Topics: science-and-technology, robots-and-artificial-intelligence, vaccines-and-immunity, united-states, switzerland, central-african-republic
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Taiwan's new President Tsai Ing-wen has been sworn in, calling for "positive dialogue" with Beijing.
Topics: world-politics, taiwan, china, asia
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to La Trobe University's Raul Sanchez Urribarri, as police clash with thousands of protesters on the streets of Venezuela calling for the ousting of President Nicolas Maduro.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, activism-and-lobbying, venezuela
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Republican lobbyist Mac Stipanovic, who has written an open letter to fellow Republicans warning against Donald Trump.
Topics: us-elections, united-states
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Journalist Farid Y Farid tells Beverley O'Connor authorities are not yet ruling out any reasons for why an EgyptAir plane disappeared from radar.
Topics: air-and-space, egypt, france
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A United Nations review has called on Papua New Guinea to address the alarming rates of family violence in the country.
Topics: crime, family, papua-new-guinea, pacific
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to Europol's Wil van Gemert as a report by Europol and Interpol estimates most of the million asylum seekers and migrants heading to Europe last year were assisted by criminals.
Topics: refugees, immigration, european-union
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