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WorldCom scandal
WorldCom scandal was an accounting fraud at WorldCom. Between 1999 and 2002, management hid over $7 billion in line costs, causing the largest US bankruptcy to that time.
Worldcon
Worldcon, the World Science Fiction Convention, is the annual convention of the World Science Fiction Society, first held in New York in 1939 and annual since 1946. Members vote on sites two years ahead and on the Hugo Awards; each Worldcon is independent.
WorldEnd (終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？)
WorldEnd (終末なにしてますか？忙しいですか？救ってもらっていいですか？), aka SukaSuka, is a Japanese fantasy light novel series and 2017 anime about Willem Kmetsch, last survivor of extinct humanity, among fairy weapon-girls on floating islands.
Worldline
A worldline is the path an object traces through four-dimensional spacetime, recording every event in its history, a concept Hermann Minkowski introduced in his 1908 lecture Raum und Zeit.
Worldline formalism
The worldline formalism is a method in quantum field theory that rewrites one-loop effective actions and scattering amplitudes as path integrals over point-particle trajectories rather than sums of Feynman diagrams.
Worldloppet Ski Federation
The Worldloppet Ski Federation is an international federation of long-distance cross-country ski marathons, founded in Uppsala, Sweden, in 1978 and headquartered in Tartu, Estonia, linking 19 citizen races on four continents.
WorldNetDaily
WorldNetDaily (WND), WND.com, is a conservative American news and commentary website founded in May 1997 by Joseph Farah, known for right-wing bias ratings, failed fact checks, and the birther movement.
Worldometer
Worldometer, known as Worldometers until 2020, is a reference website with real-time counters for world statistics; during the COVID-19 pandemic it surpassed 1 billion monthly visits.
Worldpay
Worldpay is a merchant acquiring and payment processing company handling authorization, settlement, and fraud services for merchants in over 100 countries, acquired by Global Payments in 2026 for $24.25 billion.
Worldport (Pan Am)
Worldport, officially the Pan Am Terminal and later Terminal 3, was Pan Am's JFK Airport terminal, opened in 1960 and demolished after Delta's use ended in 2013.
WorldQuant
WorldQuant, known in Chinese as 世坤投资, is a quantitative asset management firm founded by Igor Tulchinsky in 2007, known for statistical arbitrage using algorithmic signals called alphas.
Worlds Apart (group)
Worlds Apart is a Franco-British boy band formed in London in 1992 whose bilingual hit Je te donne and album Everybody made it a star act in France.
Worlds Beyond Number
Worlds Beyond Number is an independent TTRPG actual play podcast starring Brennan Lee Mulligan, Erika Ishii, Aabria Iyengar, and Lou Wilson, produced by Taylor Moore. Launched 2023; first campaign The Wizard, the Witch, and the Wild One set in Umora.
Worlds Collide (2020)
Worlds Collide (2020), WWE Network special, January 25, 2020, Toyota Center, Houston: NXT versus NXT UK for brand supremacy. Imperium beat Undisputed ERA; Devlin won the Cruiserweight Title; Ripley retained against Storm.
Worlds Collide (2022)
Worlds Collide (2022), or NXT Worlds Collide, was a WWE premium live event on September 4, 2022 in Orlando, Florida, unifying NXT and NXT UK championships before NXT UK's relaunch as NXT Europe; Bron Breakker defeated Tyler Bate in the main event.
Worlds Collide (2026)
Worlds Collide (2026), WWE x AAA crossover event taped September 26, 2026 at Allstate Arena, Rosemont, Illinois, streamed September 30 on YouTube; main event CM Punk, Rey Mysterio and El Grande Americano beat Dominik Mysterio, JD McDonagh and Omos; counterprogrammed AEW All Out.
Worlds Collide (June 2025)
Worlds Collide (June 2025) was a WWE and Lucha Libre AAA co-promoted wrestling event on June 7, 2025 at the Kia Forum in Inglewood, California, streamed on YouTube; Vikingo retained the AAA Mega Championship against Chad Gable with no title changes.
Worlds Collide (September 2025)
Worlds Collide: Las Vegas was a WWE and AAA professional wrestling event on September 12, 2025, in Paradise, Nevada, where Dominik Mysterio won the AAA Mega Championship.
Worlds Collide Concert Tour
Worlds Collide Concert Tour: Disney arena show uniting Descendants, ZOMBIES, and Camp Rock (Camp Rock new for 2026), opening September 25, 2026 in Palm Desert, eight cast members, 34 shows through Europe in 2027. Not the same-named Within Temptation and Evanescence co-headline tour of 2022.
Worlds End (2024)
AEW Worlds End 2024, also called Worlds End, was All Elite Wrestling's December 28, 2024 pay-per-view in Orlando, where Jon Moxley retained the AEW World Championship and Kazuchika Okada won the Continental Classic.
Worlds End (2025)
AEW Worlds End 2025, the third annual Worlds End, was AEW's December 27, 2025 pay-per-view at NOW Arena, Hoffman Estates, Illinois, where MJF won the AEW World Championship and Jon Moxley won the Continental Classic.
Worldscale
Worldscale is a nominal freight rate scale for oil tankers, introduced in 1969, against which actual tanker freight is negotiated as a percentage of published route rates.
WorldSID
WorldSID, the Worldwide Side Impact Dummy, is a crash test dummy developed under ISO to measure injury risk in vehicle side impacts, first released in 2004.
WorldStarHipHop
WorldStarHipHop (WSHH), founded 2005 by Lee "Q" O'Denat, is a Worldstar, LLC video aggregation site known for fight clips, hip-hop premieres, the "Worldstar" chant, and Questionable credibility ratings.
WorldTracer
WorldTracer is a global baggage tracing and matching system operated by SITA, launched with IATA in the early 1990s and used by most airlines to reunite mishandled luggage.
Worldview
Worldview, translating German Weltanschauung, is a comprehensive conception of the world and humanity's relation to it; coined by Kant in 1790, developed by Dilthey and Jaspers, and now used across philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.
Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure
The Worldwide Harmonised Light Vehicles Test Procedure (WLTP) is a United Nations laboratory test for measuring car emissions, fuel consumption, and electric range, adopted in 2014.
Worldwide Shipping Group
Worldwide Shipping Group, founded in Hong Kong in 1955 as World-Wide Steamship Company by Sir Yue-Kong Pao, grew into the world's largest independent bulk shipping fleet.
WorldWideWeb
WorldWideWeb was the first web browser, a browser and editor written by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXT computer at CERN between October and December 1990 and later renamed Nexus.
WorldWired Tour
The WorldWired Tour was a 2016 to 2019 concert tour by the American heavy metal band Metallica, supporting the album Hardwired… to Self-Destruct and grossing $433 million from over 4 million tickets.