成人快手

The Bhagalpur blindings

How Indian police tortured petty criminals, blinding them permanently

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The concert that rocked the Berlin Wall

The 1987 rock concert that led to the first shouts in East Berlin of 'the wall must go'

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Memories of Wilfred Owen

The British war poet's younger brother Harold Owen spoke to the 成人快手 in the 1960s

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Cap Anamur: A rescue that led to jail

Why a captain was arrested after saving shipwrecked Africans in the Mediterranean in 2004

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The demolition of the Babri Masjid

How Hindu extremists demolished a mosque in India prompting months of communal violence

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The Love Canal disaster

How the Love Canal neigbourhood in the US came to symbolise the dangers of toxic waste

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The first Indian to win Miss World

Reita Faria was the first Indian to win the Miss World beauty competition in 1966

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The first Tasers

Why Los Angeles police began using a new weapon in the early 1980s.

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The 'Woman in Gold'

How one of Klimt's most famous paintings was returned to the family who'd owned it

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I saw the soldiers who killed El Salvador's priests

Lucia Cerna was the only witness to a murder that shocked El Salvador in November 1989

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The man who got Delhi on track

India's capital city built a Metro to tackle its traffic and air pollution problems

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Exploring Arabia's Empty Quarter

How Wilfred Thesiger travelled in one of the world's harshest environments in the 1940s.

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The man who gave his voice to Stephen Hawking

American scientist Dennis Klatt pioneered synthesised speech using his own voice.

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India's economic revolution

In the 1990s India began to open up its state-controlled economy

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From cakes to computers

How the Lyons catering company pioneered LEO, the first electronic office system

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Handing back Uluru

In 1985 Australia's famous natural landmark Uluru was returned to aboriginal ownership

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The first confirmed case of HIV in America

Robert R was a teenager who died of an undiagnosed illness in Missouri in 1969

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The killing of Pablo Escobar

The Colombian drug trafficker was shot dead by police on December 2nd 1993

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Shackleton

How a doomed Antarctic expedition in 1914 became a legendary story of survival

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The British sculptor who won over the world

Henry Moore revolutionised sculpture by creating immense works and setting them outside.

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Jaslyk 鈥� Uzbekistan鈥檚 infamous prison

A prison camp in the Uzbek desert became notorious for torture and human rights abuses.

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The Cuban writer who defied Fidel Castro

In 1990 Reinaldo Arenas died of Aids in New York, leaving behind a powerful autobiography

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The battle of the Louvre pyramid

How Paris was eventually won round to the Louvre museum's great glass pyramid

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The IRA siege at Balcombe Street

In December 1975, the IRA took a middle-aged couple hostage in Central London.

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The 'Awakenings' medical experiment

In the 1960s a new drug briefly woke up patients who'd been catatonic for decades.

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The killing of Amadou Diallo

When New York police shot a young immigrant 41 times, thousands took to the streets

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El Salvador's stolen children

During El Salvador's civil war, soldiers abducted children in rebel areas

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The attack on India's parliament

In December 2001 armed men attacked India's parliamentary compound in broad daylight

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Black GIs during World War Two

How soldiers who had been relegated to support roles were asked to volunteer for combat

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Women and the Sabarimala temple

How Indian women fought for the right to be allowed into a Hindu holy site

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