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The murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl
The reporter who was killed by Islamist extremists in Pakistan while investigating 9/11.
The day the world looked up
In 2012 a rare astronomical event occurred when Venus flew past the Sun
The first Emirati female teacher
The trailblazing story of the first Emirati born teacher
The Death of King George VI
How Britain marked the death of its wartime monarch and the accession of Queen Elizabeth
The demise of the Soviet Union
How the leaders of Ukraine, Russia and Belarus plotted to break up the USSR in 1991.
The invention of Google Maps
How the revolutionary online mapping service was created in 2005.
Shoe designer Manolo Blahnik
How the Spaniard became a legend in the world of ultra-fashionable shoes.
Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'
Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv
The 1972 mass killings in Burundi
In 1972 Burundi’s Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising
The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia
How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia
"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces
For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.
The Berlin Patient
Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.
Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama
"Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.
The world's first civil union
In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions
The first sex worker strike
When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.
Nixon in China
The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.
The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2
The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory
The death of Trayvon Martin
The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.
The 2014 annexation of Crimea
A personal of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014
Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia
Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992
Putin's war in Chechnya
An eyewitness of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999
Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation
How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.
The takeover of NTV in Russia
How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.
Russia's war in Georgia in 2008
First-hand s of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.
Anna Akhmatova - Voice of Russia
How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history.
Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine
The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women
The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war
The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.
Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi
The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi
The Wages for Housework campaign
How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.
The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction
The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.
Chandigarh: India's city of the future
How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India
