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Far from an average Joe

Joe Thomas, the record breaking NFL star who has swapped snaps for steaks

Living in Greenland

What’s it like to live in Greenland as the world debates your future?

Putin's foreign fighters

Why are young men from around the world risking their lives fighting for Russia?

25/01/2026 01:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

6. The Opening of the Present

Will is betrayed. Nowhere is safe and his family are in danger

India’s 1948 hockey gold medal

In 1948, newly independent India won gold in the hockey final at the Olympic Games

25/01/2026 02:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Could the shingles vaccine really slow down the ageing process?

People who have had a vaccine against shingles seem to be aging more slowly

Anaesthesia

What happens to our brains and our consciousness when we’re put to sleep?

Ukraine's power struggle

Heat and light in short supply in Kyiv - while worries surge over risks to nuclear plants

The Child Cancer Scam

6. The calls

Mothers confront the people who scammed them - they want answers

25/01/2026 05:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Putin's foreign fighters

Why are young men from around the world risking their lives fighting for Russia?

US citizen and nurse Alex Pretti shot dead by federal agents

What the federal authorities are saying is "nonsense" - Minnesota Governor Tim Walz

Conflicting accounts of second fatal shooting

Trump officials says federal agents shot in self-defence

No breakthrough in Ukraine peace talks

President Zelensky says the talks were "constructive"

Ukraine's power struggle

Heat and light in short supply in Kyiv - while worries surge over risks to nuclear plants

Dinner unboxed

What meal kits reveal about how we plan, buy and cook our food

Wild horses in the American West

Innovative solutions to the unwieldy population of wild horses in the American West

Protest in the age of the 'Kill Switch'

How some governments turn off the internet

25/01/2026 11:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

6. The Opening of the Present

Will is betrayed. Nowhere is safe and his family are in danger

Is Greenland as big as Africa?

Tim Harford asks if Greenland is really as vast as most maps seem to suggest

Living in Greenland

What’s it like to live in Greenland as the world debates your future?

Greece: Rescuers on trial

The aid workers put on trial for people-smuggling after saving migrants from drowning

Minnesota: Government account of protester killing conflicts with witness testimony

Protests in Minneapolis following the fatal shooting of a man by federal agents

How hot could the planet get?

Climate change is happening. So just how high could temperatures go?

The Happy Pod: Saving lives with the man who saved mine

A man who had two heart operations as a child later worked with his surgeon saving others

25/01/2026 19:06 GMT

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Black Girlhood in photos and writing

Sisters Salamishah and Scheherazade Tillet’s photos & words on the lives of Black girls.

Banging the science drum

The world's most unlikely drumming duo has us banging the drum for some rhythmic science.

Minneapolis crowds gather after death of Alex Pretti

Flowers and tributes have been left at the spot where Alex Pretti was fatally shot

25/01/2026 22:06 GMT

The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen

Protest in the age of the 'Kill Switch'

How some governments turn off the internet

How hot could the planet get?

Climate change is happening. So just how high could temperatures go?

Greece: Rescuers on trial

The aid workers put on trial for people-smuggling after saving migrants from drowning