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How Did Iceland Clean Up its Banks (And Why Can't We)?

Iceland put its prime minister on trial, cleaned up its banks and jailed senior bankers

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Why Don鈥檛 We Eradicate Mosquitoes?

Mosquitoes cause a huge number of deaths. But getting rid of them would be complicated.

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Has President Assad Won?

Bashar al-Assad still rules Syria after five years of war

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How Did Governments Lose Control of Encryption?

Spies, hippies, jihadis and the ongoing conflict over the power to keep secrets.

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Why Are Wages So Low?

Pay packets in developed economies have hardly grown in decades.

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What Would it Take to Put a Human on Mars?

Nasa is planning a manned mission to Mars. But the challenges are enormous

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Can we Quake-Proof a City?

Earthquakes have killed a million people in the last two decades

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Why Do Mexicans Drink So Much Soda?

Mexicans are among the world鈥檚 biggest soda consumers, and it鈥檚 affecting their health

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What Happened To Al-Qaeda?

Charting the fortunes of the group that once led the global jihadist movement

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Do We Have Enough Genders?

Gender identity is considered more fluid than ever

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What Kind of Person Becomes a Violent Jihadi?

The search for a 'terrorist type' and understanding people who kill for their beliefs

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Should We Give Homeless People Homes?

How the city of Medicine Hat in Canada, gave every person living in the streets a home

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What Happened to the European Dream?

The search for the vision that inspired the European project's founders

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What's Killing White American Women?

The mysterious case of rising death rates in the world's richest country

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How will Virtual Reality Change our Lives?

VR is finally a reality, and could affect everything from gaming to psychology

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Would A New International Convention Help Refugees?

The case for rethinking the 1951 UN Refugee Convention to deal with today's crisis

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Are we Fighting Cancer the Right Way?

The World Health Organisation says cancer rates around the world are rising fast

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Why Can't Egypt Stop FGM?

FGM is more common in Egypt than anywhere else in the world

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Are We Really About to End World Poverty?

The UN thinks ending extreme poverty is within our grasp

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Why Do So Many People Dislike Hillary?

How the US presidential frontrunner got to be so unpopular

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Can the EU Survive?

The fate of the European Union without Britain

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Can You Make Bankers Behave Better?

Exploring how individual bankers might be nudged into better and safer choices

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Can Trump Win?

Evaluating Donald Trump鈥檚 chances of taking the White House

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Is Brexit Inevitable?

Britain鈥檚 PM says 鈥淏rexit means Brexit鈥�. But some have suggested it might never happen

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Can Colombia Reintegrate the Farc?

How to bring thousands of jungle fighters into society after 50 years of conflict

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How Did we Save the Ozone Layer?

How scientists, campaigners, business and government came together to avert disaster

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Has Russia Won In Ukraine?

President Putin鈥檚 short term gains may come at a cost

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Why Don鈥檛 Cities Want The Olympics?

The number of cities bidding to host the Olympic Games is falling

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Would Donald Trump Be a Dangerous President?

Fifty US security officials have said Trump 鈥渨ould be a dangerous president鈥�

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Is Retirement Over?

People are living longer, but not saving enough for their old age.

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