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World baseball softball confederation
World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), world governing body of baseball and softball, formed 14 April 2013 in Tokyo by merging IBAF and ISF; IOC-recognized, Pully, Switzerland headquarters, 207 members, president Riccardo Fraccari.
World beach volleyball championships
FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, the biennial world title event for two-player beach volleyball teams, first held officially in 1997 at UCLA; 15th edition Adelaide 2025, Netherlands hosts 2027.
World Bee Day
World Bee Day, a UN observance on 20 May since 2018, proclaimed 20 December 2017 on Slovenia's initiative, honors beekeeper Anton Janša's birthday and raises awareness of pollinators' role in food security.
World Bioenergy Association
The World Bioenergy Association is an international non-profit organization, founded in Sweden in 2008, that promotes sustainable bioenergy and represents the bioenergy sector in over 40 countries.
World Biogas Association
The World Biogas Association (WBA) is the international trade body for the biogas, landfill gas, and anaerobic digestion industries, launched at COP22 in Marrakesh in 2016 and based in London.
World Blitz Chess Championship
World Blitz Chess Championship: FIDE world title in blitz chess (3 min + 2 sec per move), held with the World Rapid & Blitz Championships. Magnus Carlsen holds nine Open titles; Bibisara Assaubayeva three Women's titles.
World Blood Donor Day
World Blood Donor Day is a World Health Organization-sponsored awareness day held each 14 June, first observed in 2004, honoring voluntary unpaid blood donors; the date marks Karl Landsteiner's birthday.
World bob & skeleton championships
IBSF World Championships (bobsleigh and skeleton), annual world titles run by the IBSF since 1930 (bob) and 1982 (skeleton), four heats over two days, Germany dominant, 2025 Lake Placid record 38 nations.
World Book Day
World Book Day: UNESCO's World Book and Copyright Day on 23 April (est. 1995, tied to Shakespeare and Cervantes) and the separate UK/Ireland charity event on the first Thursday in March with its £1 book token scheme.
World Bowl
World Bowl: annual championship game of the NFL's European league (WLAF, NFL Europe, NFL Europa), played 1991–2007 except 1993–94; first won by London Monarchs, final won by Hamburg Sea Devils in 2007.
World Boxing Association
World Boxing Association (WBA), founded 1921 as the National Boxing Association and renamed 1962, is a major professional boxing sanctioning body sanctioning world titles, rankings, and Super/Regular champions, based in Panama.
World Boxing Council
World Boxing Council (WBC), Mexico City-based professional boxing sanctioning body founded February 14, 1963 under Adolfo López Mateos; one of four major bodies (with WBA, IBF, WBO) awarding green world-title belts, rankings, and 3% sanction fees.
World Boxing Organization
World Boxing Organization (WBO), professional boxing sanctioning body founded 1988 in San Juan, Puerto Rico; one of four major bodies with WBA, WBC, IBF; ranks fighters in 17 weight classes, 501(c)(3) non-profit, president Gustavo Olivieri.
World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱〈ワールドブレイク〉)
Seiken Tsukai no World Break (聖剣使いの禁呪詠唱〈ワールドブレイク〉), also titled World Break: Aria of Curse for a Holy Swordsman, is a 22-volume GA Bunko light novel series by Akamitsu Awamura and refeia about dual past-life saviors, adapted into a 2015 Diomedéa anime.
World Breaker
World Breaker (Worldbreaker; Разрушитель миров) is a 2026 sci-fi action horror film by Brad Anderson starring Luke Evans, Billie Boullet, and Milla Jovovich; a father trains his daughter on an island against Breaker monsters after a dimensional tear.
World Bridge Federation
The World Bridge Federation (WBF) is the international governing body for contract bridge, founded in Oslo in 1958 and recognized by the International Olympic Committee.
World Business Council for Sustainable Development
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is a CEO-led network of over 250 companies, based in Geneva, working to make sustainability drive business success.
World Calendar
The World Calendar is a proposed perpetual reform of the Gregorian calendar, promoted from 1930 by Elisabeth Achelis, in which every date falls on the same weekday every year.
World Cancer Day
World Cancer Day, observed every 4 February, is a UICC-led global awareness day created by the 2000 Charter of Paris; its 2025-2027 theme is United by Unique, with 1,000+ activities in 89 countries in 2026.
World Central Kitchen
World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a 501(c)3 nonprofit founded in 2010 by chef José Andrés after the Haiti earthquake, serving chef-prepared meals in disaster and war zones, including Ukraine and Gaza, where seven workers were killed in April 2024.
World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack
World Central Kitchen aid convoy attack: Israeli drone strike on 1 April 2024 near Deir al-Balah, Gaza, killed seven WCK aid workers (Zomi Frankcom and colleagues) in a coordinated convoy; IDF called it a grave mistake, case closed without charges in 2026.
World Championship of Cricket
World Championship of Cricket, or Benson & Hedges World Championship of Cricket 1985: unofficial ODI World Cup in Australia, 17 Feb–10 Mar 1985, seven Test nations; India beat Pakistan by eight wickets in the Melbourne final, Ravi Shastri named Champion of Champions and won an Audi.
World Championship Tennis
World Championship Tennis (WCT) was a professional men's tennis circuit founded in 1967 by Lamar Hunt and Dave Dixon, pioneer of the tie-breaker and the Dallas WCT Finals, dominant January to May in the 1970s until the ATP Tour marginalized it by 1990.
World Championship Wrestling
World Championship Wrestling (WCW) was an American professional wrestling promotion owned by Ted Turner from 1988 to 2001, known for the Monday Night Wars against the WWF.
World championships in WWE
World championships in WWE are the promotion's top men's singles titles: the Undisputed WWE Championship (1963, Buddy Rogers) and the World Heavyweight Championship (2023, Seth Rollins), plus the 2002-2013 World Heavyweight and 2016-2024 Universal titles.
World Championships of Ski Mountaineering
The World Championships of Ski Mountaineering are the biennial world title competitions for ski mountaineering, organized by the ISMF and first staged in 2002 at Serre Chevalier, France.
World Chess Championship
World Chess Championship: the title match deciding chess's world champion, official since Steinitz–Zukertort 1886. Split 1993–2006, reunified by Kramnik; Gukesh D, 18th champion, defends against Sindarov in 2026.
World Chess Championship 1886
The World Chess Championship 1886, Steinitz versus Zukertort, the first official world chess championship: played 11 January to 29 March 1886 in New York, St. Louis, and New Orleans; first to ten wins; Steinitz won 12½–7½ (+10 −5 =5).
World Chess Championship 1886–1948
The World Chess Championship 1886–1948 was the classical match era in which champions like Steinitz, Lasker, Capablanca, and Alekhine privately negotiated title defenses until Alekhine's death in 1946.
World Chess Championship 1948
World Chess Championship 1948, the Hague-Moscow match-tournament: FIDE's five-player quintuple round robin after Alekhine's death, won by Mikhail Botvinnik with 14/20 over Smyslov, Keres, Reshevsky, and Euwe.