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| Title | Date published | ||
| The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II | 2022-09-12 | ||
| The car that charmed Brazil | 2022-09-10 | ||
| The Candelaria child massacre | 2022-09-08 | ||
| Building of Brasilia | 2022-09-07 | ||
| The murder that shocked Brazil | 2022-09-06 | ||
| Doomed hero of Brazilian democracy | 2022-09-05 | ||
| Mikhail Gorbachev: Release of Irina Ratushinskaya | 2022-09-02 | ||
| Mikhail Gorbachev: Perestroika | 2022-09-01 | ||
| Princess Diana dances with John Travolta | 2022-08-31 | ||
| The 'Last Indian' | 2022-08-30 | ||
| Marikana Massacre | 2022-08-29 | ||
| India's onion election | 2022-08-26 | ||
| The 'Nixon Shock' and the end of the Gold Standard | 2022-08-25 | ||
| The Gay Games | 2022-08-24 | ||
| Hundreds die in Darayya | 2022-08-23 | ||
| Bulgaria's cash crisis | 2022-08-22 | ||
| The Bard of Bengal | 2022-08-19 | ||
| The death of Jawaharlal Nehru | 2022-08-18 | ||
| The last Viceroy of India | 2022-08-17 | ||
| India's Partition - Part Two | 2022-08-16 |