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The earthquake that devastated Haiti
In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake
Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune
Copenhagen’s Christiania commune was created as a radical social experiment.
The Peter Principle
Why promotion leads to incompetence
Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis
The journalist who revealed the affair between the Greek shipping magnate and JFK's widow
Mexico's miracle water
People flocked from all over the Americas to central Mexico in search of healing water
The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko
How one of Vladimir Putin's critics was killed in London with a radioactive substance
James Bond on screen
As the latest James Bond film hits cinema screens we look at the appeal of the franchise
Kenya: Westgate Mall attack
Gunmen attacked a Nairobi shopping centre, the siege lasted four days in September 2013
The rise of the Taliban
How the Afghan fighters first came to power in the 1990s
Photographing Brazil's Yanomami
Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe
'Mad cow disease' and CJD
In 1996 the UK government said there was a link between BSE in cattle and CJD in humans
Petra Kelly and the German Greens
The radical German Greens reshaped the country’s political landscape in the early 1980s
The Tanker War
Surviving a deadly attack on a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war
London's first black policeman
In 1967 Norwell Roberts became the first Black officer in the Metropolitan police
Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'
The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain.
A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain
How Ibrahim Ismaa'il escaped poverty in Somalia to live in the British countryside.
The unlawful death of Christopher Alder
The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998
Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer
The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football
Winning the Arabic Booker prize
Saudi author Raja Alem was the first woman to win the prestigious international award
Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally
The teacher who formed Britain's Nazi party and the antifascists who fought against them.
The story of 'Baby Jessica'
When a toddler fell down a well in Texas she became the centre of a media storm
The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors
In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan.
The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist
American anti-abortion extremists began killing doctors in the 1990s.
The first transgender minister in the Church of England
Sarah Jones is the first person who had made a gender change to be ordained by the C of E
The mysterious death of Samora Machel
Many suspected foul play when Mozambique's socialist leader was killed in a plane crash
Polish refugees in Africa
How Polish women and children found refuge in African countries during WW2
The Greenham Common women's peace camp
Throughout the 80s women protested against nuclear weapons which were held at the UK base
Britain’s lesbian families ‘scandal’
A media storm about lesbian mothers caused a heated national debate in 1970s Britain.
Proving climate change: the 'Keeling Curve'
The US scientist who began recording carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere in 1958
The world's first environment conference
Countries first tried to tackle the damage humans are doing to the planet in 1972
How the world woke up to climate change
A scientist delivered a direct message to US politicians about climate change in 1988
