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World Humanoid Robot Games
World Humanoid Robot Games (WHRG), annual Beijing competition for humanoid robots, first held August 2025; 2026 edition drew 2,056 robots from 666 teams in 16 countries across 51 events, with record sprints and soccer titles.
World in Conflict
World in Conflict (冲突世界) is a 2007 real-time tactics game by Massive Entertainment set in an alternate 1989 Soviet invasion of the US; no base building, four unit roles, tactical nukes, Massgate multiplayer, Metacritic 89, Soviet Assault expansion 2009.
World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network
World Indigenous Television Broadcasters Network (WITBN, now WIBN), founded March 2008 in Auckland, is an alliance of Indigenous broadcasters: Whakaata Māori, APTN, NRK Sápmi, TITV, NITV, later BBC ALBA, TG4, Ōiwi TV, Hakka TV, sharing content and conferences.
World Indoor Archery Championships
World Indoor Archery Championships, officially the World Archery Indoor Championships, was World Archery's biennial indoor target archery world title event at 18 metres, held 14 editions from 1991 (Oulu) to 2018 (Yankton), then replaced by the Indoor Archery World Series.
World inline speed skating championships
World inline speed skating championships: annual track and road world titles for inline racing run by World Skate (formerly FIRS, renamed 2017). First held Monza 1937 (road) and London 1938 (track); marathon 42.195 km; minimum age 15.
World Intellectual Property Organization
World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), UN specialized agency in Geneva, 194 member states, administers 28 IP treaties including the PCT, Madrid, and Hague systems; Director General Daren Tang, second term from 2026.
World is Mine
"World is Mine" (officially "THE WORLD IS MINE") is a Vocaloid song composed by ryo of supercell and sung by Hatsune Miku, uploaded to Niconico on May 31, 2008.
World Is Not Enough (spacecraft)
World Is Not Enough, or WINE, is a refuelable American hopping spacecraft that mines water from asteroids or the Moon and heats it into steam, demonstrated in 2018.
World Is Yours (ワールドイズユアーズ) (album)
World Is Yours (ワールドイズユアーズ) is the second album by Japanese rock band MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS, released 21 January 2009 on AVOCADO Records (XQEH-1004); six tracks, about 22 minutes, Oricon peak No. 44, now streamed via Universal Music Artists.
World journal of surgery
The World Journal of Surgery is a monthly peer-reviewed general surgery journal published since 1977 as the official journal of the International Society of Surgery, currently issued by Wiley.
World Junior Alpine Skiing Championships
FIS Alpine Junior World Ski Championships (WJC), annual world junior alpine skiing titles since Auron 1982; 45th edition Narvik 2026, 46th Lake Placid 2027; six events, ages about 16-20.
World Junior Chess Championship
World Junior Chess Championship, also FIDE World Junior U20 Championship: FIDE's world title event for under-20 players, open and girls sections, Swiss system. First held 1951 (won by Borislav Ivkov); 2025 champions Pranav Venkatesh and Anna Shukhman.
World Junior Curling Championships
The World Junior Curling Championships is an annual curling championship for junior men's and women's teams, with ten teams each qualifying through the previous year or the Junior-B event.
World Junior Figure Skating Championships
World Junior Figure Skating Championships (ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, Junior Worlds): annual ISU junior championship since 1976 in men's and women's singles, pairs, and ice dance, ages 13 to 19 (21 for male dance/pair partners).
World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
The World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships is an annual international short track speed skating competition for junior skaters, organized by the International Skating Union.
World Junior Speed Skating Championships
ISU Speed Skating Junior World Championships: annual ISU world title event for junior long track speed skaters, held since 1972 (men) and 1973 (women), over three days of single distance and Allround racing.
World Junior Table Tennis Championships
World Junior Table Tennis Championships, since 2021 the ITTF World Youth Championships: ITTF junior world title event first held 2003 in Santiago, Chile, with U19 and U15 events; 2026 edition in Istanbul, Türkiye.
World Karate Federation
World Karate Federation (WKF), international karate governing body in Madrid, successor to WUKO (1970) since 1992. Led by Antonio Espinós; governs Kata and Kumite rules, world championships, and Olympic karate (Tokyo 2020 debut).
World Kinect
World Kinect Corporation, known until 2023 as World Fuel Services, is a Miami-based global energy management company delivering aviation, marine, and land fuels and related services.
World Labs
World Labs is a San Francisco spatial-intelligence startup founded by AI researcher Fei-Fei Li in 2024, which builds world models that generate navigable 3D environments, with products Marble and Atlas.
World lacrosse
World Lacrosse (WL), formerly the Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL), is the IOC-recognized international governing body for lacrosse, governing men's and women's field, box, and Sixes rules, with lacrosse returning to the Olympics at LA28 in the Sixes format.
World Lacrosse Men's Championship
World Lacrosse Men's Championship, the quadrennial men's field lacrosse world championship first held in Toronto in 1967; United States leads with 11 titles, Canada 3; 2023 San Diego won by USA, 2027 in Tokyo.
World language
World language: a language used globally by native and non-native speakers, also called a lingua franca. Latin, French, and English held the role; English now leads with about 1.49 billion speakers versus 1.18 billion for Mandarin.
World Liberty Financial
World Liberty Financial (WLF) is a decentralized finance venture launched in September 2024 with backing from the Trump family, comprising the WLFI governance token, the USD1 stablecoin, and a lending platform.
World literature
World literature (Weltliteratur) is literature circulating beyond its culture of origin, chiefly in translation, and the field studying that circulation; coined by Goethe in 1827 and redefined by Damrosch in 2003 as a mode of reading, it is debated for Eurocentrism and translation dependence.
World luge championships
FIL Luge World Championships, first held Oslo 1955 at Holmenkollen, are the International Luge Federation's world titles in singles, doubles, team relay, and mixed events on artificial and natural tracks; Whistler 2025 was the 53rd edition, Innsbruck-Igls hosts 2027.
World Mahjong Championship (世界麻将锦标赛)
World Mahjong Championship (世界麻将锦标赛), the top international MCR-rules mahjong tournament governed by the World Mahjong Organization; first held Tokyo 2002, WMO editions since Chengdu 2007, 8th in Kunming 2026.
World Mahjong Organization (世界麻将组织)
World Mahjong Organization (世界麻将组织), WMO, founded October 2005 in Beijing by eight countries' mahjong bodies; governs Mahjong Competition Rules (MCR) and runs the World Mahjong Championship, first held 2007 in Chengdu, with 40-plus member countries.
World Malaria Day
World Malaria Day, also called Malaria Awareness Day, is an annual health observance held on 25 April each year, established by WHO Member States in May 2007.
World Marathon Majors
World Marathon Majors (AbbottWMM): series of eight marathons, Tokyo, Boston, London, Cape Town, Sydney, Berlin, Chicago, New York City, founded 2006 as an elite points series with Six Star medals for amateurs.