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The warnings before 9/11

Throughout 2001 the US administration was being given warnings a terror attack was coming

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The killing of Ahmed Shah Massoud

Two days before 9/11, al-Qaeda killed a key Afghan leader in a suicide bombing.

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With the president on 9/11

How the White House chief-of-staff broke the news of 9/11 to President George W Bush.

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America attacks Afghanistan

Just a month after 9/11, the US launched airstrikes against the Taliban and al-Qaeda

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9/11: The backlash against American Muslims

In the aftermath of September 11th, American Muslims faced increased discrimination

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The Attica prison rebellion

One prisoner's memories of a dramatic siege in a high security jail in the USA.

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The lost king of France

When DNA solved a two hundred year old French royal mystery. Did the king die or escape?

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The earthquake that devastated Haiti

In 2010 the Haitian capital was hit by a catastrophic earthquake

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Christiania: Copenhagen’s hippy commune

Copenhagen’s Christiania commune was created as a radical social experiment.

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The Peter Principle

Why promotion leads to incompetence

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Jackie Kennedy and Aristotle Onassis

The journalist who revealed the affair between the Greek shipping magnate and JFK's widow

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Mexico's miracle water

People flocked from all over the Americas to central Mexico in search of healing water

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The poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko

How one of Vladimir Putin's critics was killed in London with a radioactive substance

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James Bond on screen

As the latest James Bond film hits cinema screens we look at the appeal of the franchise

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Kenya: Westgate Mall attack

Gunmen attacked a Nairobi shopping centre, the siege lasted four days in September 2013

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The rise of the Taliban

How the Afghan fighters first came to power in the 1990s

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Photographing Brazil's Yanomami

Claudia Andujar spent almost five decades taking unique photos of the remote Amazon tribe

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'Mad cow disease' and CJD

In 1996 the UK government said there was a link between BSE in cattle and CJD in humans

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Petra Kelly and the German Greens

The radical German Greens reshaped the country’s political landscape in the early 1980s

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The Tanker War

Surviving a deadly attack on a merchant ship in the Persian Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war

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London's first black policeman

In 1967 Norwell Roberts became the first Black officer in the Metropolitan police

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Britain's World War Two 'Brown Babies'

The stigma of growing up as a mixed race child in post-war Britain.

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A Somali sailor in 1920s Britain

How Ibrahim Ismaa'il escaped poverty in Somalia to live in the British countryside.

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The unlawful death of Christopher Alder

The black former soldier choked to death on the floor of a British police station in 1998

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Clyde Best - A black footballing pioneer

The Bermuda-born West Ham striker recalls the rampant racism in 1970s English football

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Winning the Arabic Booker prize

Saudi author Raja Alem was the first woman to win the prestigious international award

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Colin Jordan and the British Nazi rally

The teacher who formed Britain's Nazi party and the antifascists who fought against them.

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The story of 'Baby Jessica'

When a toddler fell down a well in Texas she became the centre of a media storm

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The Pakistani law that jailed rape survivors

In the 1980s, a horrific rape case galvanised the women's rights movement in Pakistan.

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The doctor killed by an anti-abortion extremist

American anti-abortion extremists began killing doctors in the 1990s.

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