Venezuela's oil bonanza

When Venezuela was rich; surviving a mid-air airline disaster; the swine flu crisis

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I was abused by a President

How scandal engulfed Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, the Elgin marbles, Barbie's origins

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China's breakthrough malaria cure

How an ancient Chinese remedy provided a 1970s breakthrough in the fight against malaria

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Autism and the MMR vaccine

How a British doctor misled the world by linking the MMR vaccine to autism.

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Drama in the British parliament

A political crisis in Britain, ballooning around the world and mindfulness.

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Abolishing the army

How Costa Rica scrapped its armed forces, plus Maya Angelou and Sweden's famous warship.

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The rise of Hindu nationalism

A religious rally called the Rath Yatra in 1990 championed militant Hinduism in India.

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The Columbine school shooting

Mass murder in the US, the first play on Broadway by a black woman, and space tourism.

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The al Yamamah arms deals

The controversial Anglo-Saudi deal, South Africa's historic election, the first "Vegan"

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The Malayan Emergency

Battling a communist insurgency in the 50s, sinking the Belgrano and the "Arctic African"

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The war on drugs

US efforts to deal with illegal drugs in 1971, plus the rise of Jack Ma in China.

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The final days of Sri Lanka's civil war

The last battles of a brutal conflict plus how the Nazis stole children.

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Fighting Uganda's anti-gay laws

LBGT activism in Uganda, the start of Greenpeace, Bangladesh acid attacks, and dinosaurs.

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Tiananmen Square

Remembering Tiananmen Square, the internet's first social network, and Sesame Street

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D-Day

Eyewitness accounts of the Normandy landings, Vikings in England and the Little Prince

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The first anti-psychotic drug

A mental health breakthrough, the end of the Kosovan war, and a trailblazing gay wedding.

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The assassination of Medgar Evers

An American civil rights hero, a Chinese online star and the psychoanalyst CG Jung

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The Stonewall riot

The riot that inspired the gay rights movement; genocide against the Kurds; and Catch-22

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Surviving Cambodia's 'Killing Fields'

Life under the Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, kidnapped by the Contras and the first Walkman.

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Kenya's ivory inferno

Highlighting the threat from poaching, solving the common cold, plus China and the tampon

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Exploring space

To mark the Apollo 11 Moon landing, personal accounts of landmarks in space exploration.

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When Tunisia led on women's rights

Liberation for Tunisia's women in the 1950s; gay and lesbian fake marriages in China

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The anti-nuclear protesters who won

The protest which stopped the construction of a nuclear reprocessing plant in Germany.

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The mass exodus of Algeria's 'Pieds Noirs'

Why French returnees from the colony of Algeria were ostracised after independence.

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The division of Kashmir

How Kashmir was separated, the warnings about 9/11, Carlos the Jackal and Dr Seuss.

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The return of the wolf

Restoring the wolf in the US, the liberation of Paris and El Salvador's lost children

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The Kindertransport children

Children fleeing the Nazis, a breakthrough in criminal forensics, plus Nina Simone

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The outbreak of World War Two

Eyewitness account of the Nazi invasion of Poland and the first all-female peacekeepers.

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Conflict timber in Liberia's civil war

How the timber industry fuelled a brutal civil war in West Africa.

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The Cambridge spy network

The distinguished British art historian exposed as a former Soviet spy.

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