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Ruth Bader Ginsburg predicted the threat to abortion access

In one of her final interviews, the Supreme Court justice and women's rights pioneer predicted that US abortion rights could be revoked and warned...

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Myles Burke Features Correspondent

The bizarre quantum paradox of 'negative time'

In the quantum world, our intuitive grasp of past, present and future may not apply. Richard Fisher explores the discombobulating concepts of "...

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Richard Fisher

Can LED face masks transform your skin? Here's what the experts say

LED technology has been used to address a number of skin issues, such as eczema, mild to moderate acne, psoriasis and sun damage in a medical...

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Annabel Rackham Health And Wellbeing Reporter

Three time-based puzzles from the ancient world

As the clocks go forward this spring, see if you can solve these puzzles based on ancient calendars. When the clocks change for Daylight Saving...

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Martha Henriques

A wild road to the highest city in North America

Located on a lonely mountain plain in Colorado ski country, the silver-rush-era town of Leadville holds secrets as deep as its tunnels and old mine...

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Mike Maceacheran

Remarkable women of WW2 to be celebrated

Women who played vital roles during World War Two are to be celebrated in an exhibition at the International Bomber Command Centre. Ten women have...

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Emma Petrie Bbc News

Revisiting the women who shaped Europe’s cities

From Manchester to Reykjavík, innovative tours are highlighting forgotten stories and re-incorporating female legacies into the popular tourist...

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Shanna Mcgoldrick

How an unsung Black poet shaped the US

She is believed to be the first enslaved person and first African American to publish a book of poetry. She also forced the US to reckon with...

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Robin Catalano

Eugénie Brazier: The first chef with six Michelin stars

Uneducated, a single mother and the first person ever to receive six Michelin stars, Eugénie Brazier was a tour de force. So why doesn't the world...

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Anna Richards

The powerful women of the Silk Road

With no cities or courts, the formidable and nomadic Xiongnu kingdom sent princess emissaries to control its frontiers. The raiders came from the...

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Lina Zeldovich Features Correspondent

Suffragettes speak about their brutal experiences

"The object was to create an absolutely impossible condition of affairs in the country." In exclusive archive BBC interviews, two activists look...

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Lindsay Baker

Gloria Steinem on the trailblazing Ms Magazine

In 1972, pioneering feminist, journalist and activist Gloria Steinem – who turns 90 today – co-founded Ms Magazine, putting conversations about...

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Myles Burke

How Hilary Bradt changed the world of travel

For the past 50 years, the co-founder of the world's largest independently owned guidebook publisher has been inspiring travellers to go off the...

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Eliot Stein Features Correspondent

The grannies who saved Albanian cuisine

After being sealed off from the outside world for decades and experiencing a mass exodus, Albania is leaning into its culinary roots with the help...

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Tristan Rutherford

Who is Cindy Lee? Pop music's mysterious new sensation

The enigmatic musician has released one of the most raved-about LPs of recent times. But they've done it without marketing or interviews – and you...

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Shaun Curran

Vera Wang, 75, was ready to 'age out' of fashion

From making history as Vogue's youngest-ever fashion editor to creating a gown fit for a Kennedy wedding – which would end up covered in grass...

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Christopher Luu

Inside YouTube’s hidden world of forgotten videos

There's a secret side of YouTube, just beyond the guiding hand of the algorithm – and it’s nothing like what you know. The vast majority of...

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Thomas Germain

France has a nuclear umbrella. Could its European allies fit under it?

So in the end Charles de Gaulle was right. As president of France in the 1960s, it was he who launched the policy of French strategic independence....

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Hugh Schofield Bbc News

The Indian film showing the bride's 'humiliation' in arranged marriage

It is often said that marriages are made in heaven. But in India, where a majority of marriages are arranged, the process of match-making can feel...

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Geeta Pandey Bbc News•

How fire changed Notre-Dame’s unique voice

Performers and visitors to the famous gothic cathedral in the midst of the River Seine may find some subtle differences to the way sound bounces...

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Richard Gray

China is a manufacturing powerhouse- can Trump's tariffs change that?

US President Donald Trump has hit China with a second tariff in as many months, which means imports from there now face a levy of at least 20%....

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Joel Guinto Bbc News Reporting Fromsingapore

Japan's spectacular island-hopping bike trail

The 70km Shimanami Kaido, webbed with fishing harbours, hillside citrus orchards and historic shrines, is often regarded as one of the world's most...

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Zinara Rathnayake

What's the most sustainable period product?

Twenty billion disposable menstrual products are discarded each year in the US. There's a huge array of reusable options, from pads to pants to...

06.03.2025 7

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Ana Santi

Boom to gloom: India middle-class jitters amid trillion-dollar market rout

Two years ago, on his bank adviser's suggestion, Rajesh Kumar pulled out his savings - fixed deposits included - and shifted to mutual funds,...

06.03.2025 4

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Soutik Biswas And Nikhil Inamdar Bbc News•

Why a poem outraged 1980s Britain

Forty years ago, Northern English poet Harrison published a powerful work inspired by vandalised gravestones in his hometown Leeds. Then, when it...

06.03.2025 5

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Neil Armstrong

Nine things about Lesotho - the country 'nobody has ever heard of'

US President Donald Trump has said that "nobody has ever heard of" the African country of Lesotho - a comment that has "shocked" its government. It...

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Basillioh Rukanga Bbc News

Will splits in Europe prevent a credible answer on Ukraine and defence?

"It's certainly one way of focusing our minds — and wallets! Donald Trump is doing us a favour, if we choose to think about it that way. And we may...

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Katya Adler Europe Editor

The countries that never locked down for Covid-19

Most of the world found itself confined to their homes in March 2020 as Covid-19 spread at a blistering pace. Some countries didn't impose any...

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Chris Baraniuk

The 1958 Italian novel that skewered the super-rich

Lampedusa's mid-20th-Century novel The Leopard became a bestseller, then a revered film – and is now a lavish Netflix series. Its withering...

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Miriam Balanescu