PRI's The World: 08/07/2015

China is one place where leader don't have to grapple with politics to implement such rules.

The key player in global climate change policy is China, again

We check back in with The World's Ari Daniel in Greenland.  He's been following scientists there as they study a major glacier that's quickly receding, and the fjord that the meltwaters flow into, for clues about climate change.

Scientists in Greenland study the relationship between glaciers and fjords

Four years after Anders Behring Breivik gunned down 69 people, mostly teenagers, on the island of Utoya island in Norway, the youth camp reopened there. The BBC's Paul Adams reports.

Youth camp reopens on the site of Norway mass killing

Afro-Brazilian group Letieres Leite and Orchestra Rumpilezz are on their first tour of the US, connecting the African-infused music of the Brazilian state of Bahia with American jazz.

Brazilian orchestra fuses Afro beats with a little Duke

Niloy Neel was the fourth blogger to be hacked to death in Bangladesh in the past six months. His friend remembers him as smart and a sharp thinker.

Four bloggers have been killed in the past six months in Bangladesh

Airplane wreckage is just one of many things the small crustaceans attach themselves to in the sea.

Barnacles could help unlock the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

The local business corridor runs along a narrow street in an old row-house neighborhood. The street is lined with tables loaded down with fruits and vegetables and plants. For many who come here, it reminds them of a bygone era.

You gotta keep one eye on Italy to run an Italian market in Philly

No, it can't feed its people. But North Korea decided it was time to create a separate time zone. 

Out of step, North Korea changes time

The leading Republican presidential candidates battled each other on the issue of immigration in their debate in Cleveland. Donald Trump set the tone, and almost all his rivals were competing for ground on the right. 

Republican candidates compete with Trump on immigration

In response to Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump's statements hammering Mexican immigrants, the popular band Los Tigres del Norte is getting into the fray. 

Giants of Mexican music take on Trump

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