| Genre: | News, Current Affairs |
| Presenter: | Beverley O'Connor |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 15 |
| Location: | Melbourne, Victoria |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes (1 hour) |
| Network: | ABC |
| Last Aired: | present |
The World is an Australian news program which broadcasts on ABC News from 9pm to 10pm on weekdays.
The program is hosted by Beverley O'Connor and airs live in all Australian time zones on the ABC News channel. It is also streamed live on the ABC's iview website and broadcast live on Foxtel pay television service and also broadcast on Australia Plus throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
The program commenced broadcasting on 22 July 2010, the same evening on the launch of ABC News 24, with then host Scott Bevan presenting its first edition. The program originally aired from 9pm to 10pm and had a strong focus on overseas news.
The World was originally produced from the ABC Ultimo Centre in Sydney before moving to the ABC Southbank Centre in Melbourne in early 2014 and with this change it moved to a later time slot from 10.00pm to 11.00pm along with new hosts Jim Middleton and Zoe Daniel.
In September 2014, the ABC received budget cuts from the federal government, leaving Middleton to accept a redundancy package and Daniel moving back into ABC News reporting duties.[1] The program survived the budget cuts with Beverley O'Connor taking over as the permanent host. While still focusing on overseas news, the format was slightly modified to incorporate more localised stories from around Australia.
In 2024 The World reverted to the 9pm to 10pm time slot.[2]
The World This Week is broadcast on ABC Australia each Saturday morning from 4:00am to 4:30am and the ABC News channel each Saturday morning from 4:30am to 5:00am and 11:30am to 12:00pm, as well as being repeated on the ABC main channel each Sunday morning from 10:30am to 11:00am hosted by Beverley O'Connor. The show recaps the main overseas news and current affairs from the week and is also replayed on ABC News channel and ABC Australia throughout that day.