Isis battered in Kobani, gains ground elsewhere
This week, fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, have suffered reverses in their battle to capture the Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani, but the jihadi organisatio...
20 Okt 20149min
UK's Green Party excluded from TV debates
This week, UK broadcasters announced plans for televised election debates between the leaders of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties, plus Ukip's Nigel Farage - but there was apparen...
17 Okt 20144min
Interview with Nobel economics laureate Jean Tirole
Professor Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics, who won the Nobel economics prize this year for his insights into market dominance, talks to Ferdinando Giugliano about his views on the evol...
16 Okt 201414min
Ebola expected to peak in December
The World Health Organisation has said it expects the Ebola epidemic in west Africa to peak by early December, before international action reverses the upward trend. Fiona Symon asked Clive Cookson, S...
14 Okt 20144min
Isis steps up attacks on two fronts
Fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, known as Isis, have been stepping up their attacks on two main fronts, the strategically important Syrian-Turkish border town of Kobani, and in ...
13 Okt 20149min
Working lives: The benefits of being a real fraudster
Frank Abagnale is a brilliant storyteller. But his story is more interesting than most. As a runaway teenager turned confidence trickster he swindled millions of dollars from banks and travelled free...
9 Okt 20147min
Britain's Ukip challenge to Labour
Britain's ruling Conservative party is under pressure from a rightwing rival the UK independence party, which wants the UK to leave the European Union and to curb immigration, but Ukip is challenging ...
9 Okt 20144min
Turkey under pressure to help Syria's Kurds
US-led air strikes in Syria have intensified in bid to prevent forces from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant - known as Isis - from taking over a Syrian-Turkish border town inhabited mainly by ...
8 Okt 20148min
