Kai Höss: My grandfather, the Commandant of Auschwitz
In a cinema in south-west Germany an audience is gathered to watch an Oscar winning film, Zone of Interest, about the life of Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz. Those present comprise Jewish people...
7 Nov 202526min
In the shadow of the railway
After years of Chinese investment in Africa, the West is fighting back. Through the Lobito Corridor project, the US and European countries are investing billions in Angola’s Benguela Railway, which ru...
6 Nov 202526min
Striking gas in Bolivia
In July 2024, Bolivia discovered the Mayaya Centro-X1 gas field, its largest find in nearly 20 years. With an estimated 1.7 trillion cubic feet of reserves, the announcement sparked excitement across ...
5 Nov 202526min
The real ‘Yellowstone’: A battle for the cowboy way of life
Ranches, rodeos and public land. This is the story of a surprising battle raging in the American West, and the unlikely coalition it’s forged. Nearly half of all land in the West of the United Stat...
4 Nov 202526min
Lara Dizeyee's Kurdish couture
Kurdish designer Lara Dizeyee is preparing a couture collection for Milan Fashion Week. Dizeyee fled Iraqi Kurdistan as a child, grew up in the US, and later returned to Erbil. Her designs draw on tra...
3 Nov 202526min
How Russian AI targets news organisations
Networks of bots - automated social media accounts - have been found to be targeting European elections including, in the last year, those in Moldova, Poland and Germany. But could their real intentio...
1 Nov 202526min
Women share stories of losing their hair
Something unusual happened recently at the Miss USA beauty contest: Miss Nevada, 22-year-old Mary Sickler, walked on stage without any hair. She had lost it to a condition known as alopecia but, until...
1 Nov 202523min
