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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He's been a freedom fighter, and a president, but when East Timor's Xanana Gusmao stepped down as prime minster a few weeks ago, you'd be wrong in thinking he was looking to slow down.
Topics: government-and-politics, east-timor, australia
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Benjamin Netanyahu has won a surprise victory in Israel's election.
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Researchers in Spain say they have unearthed the remains of Miguel de Cervantes, the author famous for Don Quixote.
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Beverley O'Connor speaks to former UK Labour Party spin doctor Alastair Campbell about politics and his new book 'Winners and How They Succeed'.
Topics: government-and-politics, united-kingdom
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As aid agencies reach the more remote islands hit hard by Cyclone Pam, the full extent of the devastation in Vanuatu is becoming clear.
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Next month it will be 40 years since the Khmer Rouge seized power in Cambodia.
Topics: family-and-children, cambodia, asia
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A massive aid effort is slowly getting underway in Vanuatu's capital Port Vila, but the full extent of the devastation caused by Cyclone Pam is still not known.
Topics: cyclones, disasters-and-accidents, cyclone, relief-and-aid-organisations, vanuatu, pacific
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Brazilians are calling for the military to throw out the nation's newly democratically re-elected president Dilma Rousseff.
Topics: activism-and-lobbying, world-politics, corruption, brazil
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Fierce fighting for control of the Iraqi city of Tikrit has virtually levelled the tomb of Saddam Hussein.
Topics: terrorism, unrest-conflict-and-war, iraq
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In Fiji, head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for the Pacific, Sune Gudnitz, told The World Cyclone Pam is the "worst-case scenario".
Topics: cyclone, storm-event, storm-disaster, vanuatu, pacific-fair-4218, fiji
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The arts community in the Peruvian capital is incensed, after murals in the city were painted over. Lima's mayor has confirmed his government is behind the action saying the art didn't fit in with the city's historic centre.
Topics: arts-and-entertainment, peru
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Vanuatu is bearing the brunt of severe tropical Cyclone Pam. The category five storm is unleashing winds of up to 240 kilometres an hour as it moves slowly south.
Topics: storm-disaster, weather, vanuatu, pacific
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Iraqi forces have advanced on the Islamic State stronghold of Tikrit, with fierce battles raging as troops and allied fighters push to retake the city.
Topics: unrest-conflict-and-war, terrorism, iraq
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Two US police officers have been shot in Ferguson, a Missouri town hit by riots over the killing of an unarmed black teenager last year.
Topics: crime, unrest-conflict-and-war, law-crime-and-justice, united-states
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While Australia is focusing on the case of the Bali Nine pair, a further eight people are sharing death row with Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
Topics: prisons-and-punishment, drug-offences, indonesia, australia, asia
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