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The Global Story

The Global Story: Where the world meets America

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Will Gen Z protests around the world continue in 2026?
2025 was the year of youth-led protests across the world. What’s next for the movement?
09 Jan 2026,27 mins
Will Trump take control of Greenland?
Trump’s refusal to rule out military force is causing anxiety in Europe and Nato.
08 Jan 2026,26 mins
The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos
Officials have for years run war games on Venezuela – here's what they predicted.
07 Jan 2026,27 mins
People who could change the world in 2026
Our picks for who will have the power and influence to shape the next year’s big stories
06 Jan 2026,26 mins
What’s next for Venezuela?
Trump said the US will ‘run the country’ after capturing President Maduro and his wife
05 Jan 2026,30 mins
Are conspiracy theories America’s biggest export?
One British family deals with the devastating consequences of health conspiracies
02 Jan 2026,27 mins
The death of reading
What do we lose when screens replace books?
01 Jan 2026,27 mins
The hostage negotiator’s guide to making deals with Putin’s Russia
Roger Carstens on how he freed Americans wrongfully detained by Russia
31 Dec 2025,27 mins
Is the AI boom actually a bubble?
Could AI be the biggest market bubble since the dot-com crash?
30 Dec 2025,27 mins
Nukes for nothing: The deal that broke Ukraine's trust
An exploration of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, intended to enshrine Ukraine's security.
29 Dec 2025,27 mins
Can Apple cut ties with China?
Can Apple really end its made-in-China business model?
26 Dec 2025,27 mins
Is social media dead?
Is social media dead? Or is it just becoming something else?
25 Dec 2025,27 mins
The disgraced UK doctor behind autism misinformation
How a British doctor created the vaccine myth behind Trump's autism announcement.
24 Dec 2025,27 mins
Meeting settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank
Settler attacks in the West Bank have reached a record high, says the UN.
23 Dec 2025,26 mins
Is Trump looking for war with Venezuela?
As US-Venezuela tensions rise, we ask if President Trump is building a case for war.
22 Dec 2025,26 mins
Why K-beauty is everywhere
How South Korea became the world’s second-largest exporter of cosmetics.
19 Dec 2025,26 mins
Why Australia’s gun laws aren’t as strong as you might think
Australia reconsiders its gun control laws, following the Bondi Beach massacre.
18 Dec 2025,26 mins
What would it take for Putin to stop fighting in Ukraine?
President Trump says a Ukraine peace deal is ‘closer than ever’
17 Dec 2025,26 mins
The Bondi Beach massacre and the rise of antisemitic violence
Why some feared an attack like this was coming.
16 Dec 2025,27 mins
Why Trump’s Thailand-Cambodia peace deal unravelled
What happens when one of Trump's solved wars becomes unsolved?
15 Dec 2025,26 mins
The murders that moved a nation: Italy’s new femicide law
How two shocking murders of young women fueled outrage in Italy and led to femicide law
12 Dec 2025,26 mins
Why the US says Europe is facing ‘civilisational erasure’
President Trump takes on the US’s traditional allies in a foreign policy upheaval
11 Dec 2025,26 mins
How Syria is rebuilding after the fall of a dictator
Since the Assad regime fell one year ago, how has life changed for Syrians?
10 Dec 2025,26 mins
Will a social media ban for Australian teens work?
The world’s first social media ban for under 16’s starts this week – will it succeed?
09 Dec 2025,26 mins
How the National Guard shooting accelerated Trump’s immigration crackdown
Trump has pledged to "permanently pause migration" from all "third world countries".
08 Dec 2025,26 mins
The Fifa-Trump bromance
Fifa’s new ‘Peace Prize’ raises questions about politics in the world’s biggest sport
05 Dec 2025,27 mins
How did a Chinese spiritual movement build a US media empire?
In the 1990s, followers of Falun Gong moved to the US and created the Epoch Times
04 Dec 2025,27 mins
Why has Trump pardoned Honduras’s drug trafficker ex-president?
Juan Orlando Hernández was jailed for helping smuggle cocaine into the US but is now free
03 Dec 2025,26 mins
The death of reading
What do we lose when screens replace books?
02 Dec 2025,26 mins
Whatever happened to Iran’s nuclear programme?
Six months on, what did the US and Israel's strikes on Iran actually achieve?
01 Dec 2025,27 mins