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 list...
27 Feb 202526min
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 com...
26 Feb 202519min
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 r...
25 Feb 202528min
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 Pers...
24 Feb 202526min
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 Russian...
23 Feb 202559min
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 she...
22 Feb 202511min
BBC OS Conversations: Ukraine and three years of war
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 Ze...
22 Feb 202524min
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 fou...
21 Feb 202526min
