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Flight of the vulture
With their fearsome talons, acid poo and a penchant for rotting carcasses, the vulture has long been shouldered with associations of death, and dishonour. This taboo often puts them bottom of the lis…
Published on 10 months ago
BBC Trending: Can Community Notes clean up your feed?
Meta has decided to abandon the use of independent fact-checkers on Facebook and Instagram in the United States, citing concerns that fact-checkers have become too politically biased. Instead, the co…
Published on 10 months ago
Assignment: Road wars - cycling in Paris
On 15 Oct 2024, a 27-year-old cyclist was killed in a bike lane in Paris. His name was Paul Varry. He was run over by a car after an argument with a driver. What happened to Paul was extreme, but it …
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
In the Studio: Mohammad Barrangi
Iranian-born artist and former Paralympian, Mohammad Barrangi, creates intricate, dreamlike worlds where myth and reality collide. His bold, layered works, murals, prints, and 3D sculptures, fuse Per…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Life in occupied Ukraine
Russia’s land grab playbook aimed at erasing local identity and russifying “liberated” territories. Three years into the full scale invasion of Ukraine, we ask what life is like in areas under Russia…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
The Fifth Floor: Syria after Assad
In December 2024, rebel forces took control in Syria, and former President Bashar al-Assad fled the country. What's happened since? Salma Khattab from BBC Arabic has just come back from Syria and sh…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
BBC OS Conversations:
The past week has seen talks between the United States and Russia – without Ukraine. This was followed by what seems to be a deepening rift between US President Trump and Ukrainian leader President Z…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Heart and Soul: The only thing certain in life
In 2019, performer and writer Rochi Rampal found herself attending 10 funerals in one year. To contend with this, she embarked on her own “crash course” to better deal with death, and felt she had fo…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
Witness History: US Black History Month special
Extraordinary stories from African-American history, told by the people who were there. We hear tales of bravery and survival against all odds, from the first African-American woman to lead a World W…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago
BBC Trending: Quadrobic panic in Russia over craze to dress and walk on all fours like animals
There’s a moral panic in Russia and several former Soviet states about a craze in which teenagers and children dress up as animals and walk on all fours like their favourite animals. In one TikTok vi…
Published on 10 months, 1 week ago