The Rest of the World Report | June 21, 2026 — Good News Sunday Edition

The Rest of the World Podcast · Jun 21, 2026 · 11m

Between 2020 and 2024, not one woman aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer in England. Zero. A mom and her daughter found a thousand-year-old coral on their family boat. Scientists flipped the switch on tissue regeneration that Aristotle wondered about. It's Sunday. Here's what's going right.

In England, between 2020 and 2024, no women aged 20–24 died from cervical cancer — the first time that has ever happened. The HPV vaccine, introduced in schools in 2008, is estimated to have saved 200 lives so far. A generation of women will live their lives not knowing how close they came.

Scientists…