Creation of the UFC
In 1993, a new combat sport was born. Its founders called it the Ultimate Fighting Championship – UFC.It pitted all forms of mixed martial arts against each other with little to no rules and all conta...
22 Nov 202410min
Lord of the Flies
It’s 70 years since William Golding’s acclaimed novel was published. Lord of the Flies is the story of a group of English schoolboys marooned on a desert island, and how they survive without adults. I...
21 Nov 20249min
Handover of Macau
In 1999, the small territory of Macau was handed back to China after centuries of Portuguese rule.Lawyer and comedian Miguel Senna Fernandes was a member of the Macau Legislative Council and involved ...
20 Nov 202410min
The Siege of Yarmouk
During the early years of Syria’s brutal civil war, one neighbourhood close to the Syrian capital, Damascus, bore the brunt of the government’s viciousness. During 2013-14, some 18,000 residents of Ya...
19 Nov 202410min
Iran's secret Christian 'house churches'
After Iran's Islamic Revolution in 1979, some Christians faced persecution. Between 2002 and 2005, Naghmeh Panahi and her husband, Saeed Abedini, set up a network of secret 'house churches' across the...
18 Nov 20248min
German naturists
Since the 19th Century, Germans have been bathing nude at the beach. The naturist movement, known as the FKK, was banned under the Nazis.People also faced official disapproval during the early years o...
15 Nov 20249min
Luana Mansilla: Changing gender aged six
In 2013, a six-year-old from Argentina became one of the youngest people in the world to legally have their gender changed on official documents through self-declaration. It followed the introduction ...
14 Nov 202410min
India's capsule coal mine rescue
In November 1989, mining engineer Jaswant Singh Gill saved 65 miners from the Mahabir Coal Mine, in India.The miners, who had been trapped for three days after a flood, were winched out one by one usi...
13 Nov 202410min
