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| Title | Date published | ||
| The Battle of Gondar | 2021-07-20 | ||
| Domestic violence in Brazil | 2021-07-19 | ||
| England's summer of riots | 2021-07-16 | ||
| When the Taliban took Kabul | 2021-07-15 | ||
| Jane Goodall and chimpanzees | 2021-07-14 | ||
| Prisoner of the Cultural Revolution | 2021-07-13 | ||
| The race for the jet engine | 2021-07-12 | ||
| The bombing of the Rainbow Warrior | 2021-07-09 | ||
| The first World Romani Congress | 2021-07-08 | ||
| The famine in North Korea | 2021-07-07 | ||
| Britain's wartime gold | 2021-07-06 | ||
| Cuba's blindness epidemic | 2021-07-05 | ||
| China's trailblazing foreign students | 2021-07-02 | ||
| The Chinese Communist Party | 2021-07-01 | ||
| The Syrian playwright who challenged the regime | 2021-06-29 | ||
| Zimbabwe's mass UFO sightings | 2021-06-28 | ||
| The repeal of 'Don't ask, don't tell' | 2021-06-25 | ||
| China's LGBT 'cooperative marriages' | 2021-06-24 | ||
| The secret diaries of 'Gentleman Jack' | 2021-06-23 | ||
| Woubis, yossis and travestis: LGBT activism in Côte d’Ivoire | 2021-06-22 |