Turkey politics: ‘Women are almost non-existent’ says Elif Şafak – BBC News
Elif Şafak, acclaimed author of “The Bastard of Istanbul”, says the rise in the numbers of female parliamentarians is not enough. And, she warns, recent … source
Forever Young: The Documentary – BBC News
Is ageing a disease? One that can be ‘cured’? BBC’s Gabriela Torres meets the self-experimenters and scientists who are trying to dramatically extend our lives. source
92-year-old WW2 veteran flies Spitfire again – BBC News
92-year-old Air Transport Auxiliary veteran Joy Lofthouse returns to the skies in a Spitfire 70 years on from the end of World War 2. Seven decades after her last ……
US students head to Germany for free degrees – BBC News
While the cost of college education in the US has reached record highs, Germany has abandoned tuition fees altogether for German and international students … source
Step inside the Large Hadron Collider (360 video) – BBC News
A 360 tour of CERN that takes you deep inside the Large Hadron Collider – the world’s greatest physics experiment – with BBC Click’s Spencer Kelly. Watch the … source
Iraq: Islamic State inside Mosul – BBC News
It’s a city where entire districts have been emptied of people and where ancient sites have been systematically destroyed. Now, a year after Iraq’s second city … source
What is it like being black in India? BBC News
What is it like being black in India? That’s what BBC Pop Up wanted to find out after Benjamin Pratt, a student from Sierra Leone now living in India, told…
Hiroshima atomic bomb: Survivor recalls horrors – BBC News
Thursday marks 70 years to the day since the United States dropped the world’s first atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Three days later it dropped a second…
“People don’t believe I am Japanese” says Miss Japan – BBC News
With a Japanese mother and African American father, Ariana Miyamoto has become the first bi-racial woman to be crowned Miss Japan. The question of whether a person of mixed race…
Ex-Muslim: Leaving Islam – BBC News
Islam is the fastest growing religion in the UK, with the number of Muslims almost doubling in the last few years from 1.5 million in 2001 to 2.71 million in…