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| Title | Date published | ||
| Colombia's 'false positives' killings | 2022-12-21 | ||
| The BBC broadcasting through the Iron Curtain | 2022-12-20 | ||
| Una Marson and the BBC Caribbean Service | 2022-12-19 | ||
| Felix Baumgartner's huge leap | 2022-12-16 | ||
| Soviet fashionista | 2022-12-15 | ||
| Returning to District Six | 2022-12-14 | ||
| The Nazi occupation of Jersey | 2022-12-13 | ||
| Mongolian revolution | 2022-12-12 | ||
| Creating Teletubbies | 2022-12-09 | ||
| 'The Dismissal' of Gough Whitlam | 2022-12-08 | ||
| The killing of Jean Charles de Menezes | 2022-12-07 | ||
| Demolishing the Babri Masjid | 2022-12-06 | ||
| Quebec’s 1995 referendum | 2022-12-05 | ||
| Miss World protest | 2022-12-02 | ||
| The woman who smuggled HIV into Bulgaria in her handbag | 2022-12-01 | ||
| The islands Japan and Russia can’t agree on | 2022-11-30 | ||
| CrossFit: The fitness phenomenon that changed the industry | 2022-11-29 | ||
| Mombasa terror attacks | 2022-11-28 | ||
| How cat's eyes were invented | 2022-11-25 | ||
| The corruption and sodomy trials of Anwar Ibrahim | 2022-11-24 |