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God, grief and the chatbot
When Megan Garcia travelled to Rome, she carried with her a mother’s grief. At the Vatican she met the Pope and asked him to pray for her son Sewell,…
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The Saltmakers
In India's Gujarat state lies the Little Rann of Kutch, a sprawling salt marsh desert where temperatures soar to 50 degrees Celsius. This harsh lands…
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Inheritance Samsung: 1. My kingdom for a horse
In 2017, the heir to South Korea’s biggest company is facing jail, leaving it with an uncertain future. After 80 years of business, how did Samsung g…
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India’s Shadow Children
Stephanie was brought up in France in a French family, but her birth parents are Indian – she’s an intercountry adoptee. In the 1980s and 1990s thous…
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Kubra Khademi: Art of strength and survival
On a busy street in Kabul, a young artist steps into traffic wearing a steel sculpture she has shaped around her breasts and buttocks. She calls the …
1 week, 5 days ago
Elana Meyers Taylor: A 20-year journey to gold
Elana Meyers Taylor became the oldest-ever winner of an individual Winter Olympic gold medal when she won the women’s monobob event in Milan-Cortina,…
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80 years of the BBC Russian Service
The BBC's Russian service marks its eightieth anniversary this week. In eight decades, it has grown from a short wave radio service to a multimedia …
2 weeks ago
Bombings in Lebanon
Lebanon’s citizens are again caught under fire. As many as a million people are displaced as they search for a place of safety and there are fears of…
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Deaf Umrah
Islamic religious practice is deeply entwined with sound, from the call to prayer to memorising the Quran; learning to recite the holy text is very m…
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Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's longest~serving PM
Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel’s longest serving prime minister. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1949, the year after the State of Israel was founded. One o…
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