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Nato intervenes in Kosovo
How the US and its allies backed air strikes against Serbian forces to stop atrocities.
The largest war crimes trial in history
The former Serbian president, Slobodan Milosevic, went on trial at The Hague in 2002.
Greece's Great Famine
How hundreds of thousands of Greeks starved to death under Nazi occupation.
How Tinder changed the dating game
How the dating app with the swipe revolutionised the world of online romance
The World Wide Web
How the World Wide Web was created
Erasmus: Europe's student exchange scheme
The programme that's let millions of EU students live and study in other countries.
Women's rights in Basra
How women in the southern Iraqi city were persecuted for "anti-Islamic" behaviour
Britain's Soviet spy scandal
In 1971 during the Cold War, the UK expelled 90 Soviet diplomats suspected of spying.
Iranian revolution: The Kurdish uprising
A boy caught up in the forgotten battle for Kurdish autonomy in Iran in 1979
The battle for Kinder Scout
How workers in Manchester fought for the right to walk in the nearby countryside.
Algeria’s Milk Bar Bomber
Zohra Drif targeted an ice-cream parlour in Algiers during the war of independence
The War in Algeria: A French soldier's experience
A first-hand of the brutal French tactics against Algerian independence fighters
Algeria: The Massacre in Paris
How French police turned on Algerian demonstrators in Paris in 1961, killing dozens.
The Algerians who fought for
The bitter experiences of the fighters who opposed their own country's independence.
Algeria's rebel footballers
Algerian players secretly left their French clubs to form their own national team in 1958
The sinking of the Belgrano
An Argentine survivor re being torpedoed by the British during the Falklands War.
Surviving the Falkands War
British soldier Simon Weston was severely burned in an Argentine attack in 1982.
Roe v Wade
How a young lawyer from Texas got the US abortion laws changed in 1973
The chemistry of cannabis
How an Israeli scientist discovered the crucial compounds in the widely-used drug
Fighting for Uyghur rights in China
A first-hand of taking on the Chinese Communist Party in the 1980s
Soviet nuclear missile alert
The Soviet colonel who realised that a warning of a US nuclear attack was a false alarm.
China opens up to capitalism
How China's Communist rulers established the country's Special Economic Zones in May 1980
Eyjafjallajökull: The volcano that stopped Europe
How the eruption of a little-known Icelandic volcano grounded flights in Europe in 2010
Egypt's bread riots
How huge unrest forced the Egyptian government to ditch a plan to increase bread prices
The war in Transnistria
The bloody conflict between Moldova and Russian-back separatists in the early 1990s
People Power in the Philippines
In 1986, four days of huge public protests brought down President Ferdinand Marcos
The murder of Kelso Cochrane
How a street killing in 1950s London led to Britain's first race relations inquiry
The first McDonald's in Moscow
The American fast-food chain was a huge hit when it opened in the Soviet Union in 1990
Shanghai at War
A first-hand of living through the Japanese occupation in the 1930s and 40s
Chasing the Marcos millions
The lawyer who's spent decades tracking the fortune of the former Philippines president
Meeting Picasso
A British art historian on becoming a friend of the great Spanish artist in the 1950s
