Death row execution: Alabama's first suffocation
After trying - and failing - to kill him via lethal injection, Alabama is planning to execute death row inmate Kenneth Smith next week using an untested method - nitrogen suffocation. But why are they...
19 Jan 202425min
South Africa’s genocide case against Israel
Three months into the war in Gaza, the conflict has reached a courtroom: the International Court of Justice in the Hague. South Africa says we are witnessing a genocide take place in real time. Israel...
18 Jan 202432min
How Mean Girls made ‘fetch’ happen
Twenty years after Mean Girls introduced Regina George and her pink-clad Plastics to cinema screens, the high-school Queen Bee is back in a new musical film and a West End stage musical. So why is a f...
17 Jan 202425min
Who are the Houthis and will the airstrikes stop them?
Yemen’s Iranian-backed Houthis began firing missiles into Israel shortly after the invasion of Gaza. But when the rebels started targeting commercial shipping vessels in the Red Sea, the US and UK hit...
16 Jan 202428min
Presidents, princes and sex tapes: What's in the Epstein files?
This month, thousands of court documents about Jeffrey Epstein were released, unredacted, for the first time. They include new names and allegations about a number of high profile figures. So what did...
15 Jan 202427min
Could Taiwan’s election start a war?
Tomorrow, Taiwan heads to the polls. It’s the first election of a historic year, where more than half of the world’s population will vote. It could also be one of the most consequential. If the ‘wrong...
12 Jan 202430min
The Post Office scandal: How a TV drama delivered justice
The Prime Minister has announced new legislation to quash the convictions of wrongly accused subpostmasters. It comes after a groundswell of interest - and outrage - in the story after an ITV drama wa...
11 Jan 202436min
If the economy’s doing better, why are the ‘vibes’ still off?
The American economy appears to be making a miraculous recovery from inflation and the pandemic. So why the bad economic vibes? Consumer sentiment is low, and the Biden administration is struggling to...
10 Jan 202425min
