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| Title | Date published | ||
| Inventing instant noodles | 2022-12-29 | ||
| Malta's bread strike | 2022-12-28 | ||
| Inventing Chicken Manchurian | 2022-12-27 | ||
| Creating ciabatta bread | 2022-12-26 | ||
| Chile mine rescue | 2022-12-23 | ||
| Grozny siege | 2022-12-22 | ||
| 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 |