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Japan history special
The 2011 earthquake and tsunami, the first bullet train, plus other historical moments

Darfur's ethnic war
Darfur - a child's story, Brazil's first law on domestic violence and Vincent van Gogh.

When the Taliban ruled Kabul
Life under the Taliban in the 1990s, China's Cultural Revolution, inventing a jet engine

North Korea's 1990s famine
How hundreds of thousands died of starvation and malnutrition in North Korea

Supernatural sightings
UFOs in Zimbabwe, the birth of communist China and a wind power pioneer.

LGBT special
The Stonewall Riot, China's "Cooperative Marriages" and LGBT activism in Ivory Coast

The Confederate flag and America鈥檚 battle over race
One African-American woman鈥檚 act of defiance after a mass shooting in a black church.

When Israel destroyed Iraq's nuclear reactor
The 1981 attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, plus the fall of Madrid & Gaza elections

The war on drugs
US President Nixon declared illegal drugs 'public enemy number one' in June 1971

Amilcar Cabral: an African liberation legend
Overcoming Portuguese rule in Africa, the Tulsa race massacre and India's biggest strike.