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You're a journalist, war breaks out a car ride away, and you have a lift - but then the luck runs out...

Jessica has Asperger's and faces the biggest challenge yet - directing a short film.

Would you consider being celibate?

"Extreme heat...kills more New Yorkers than any other extreme weather event" - so what is the city doing to help it citizens? 🌳

It was a 400 year-old conundrum - and here's the answer. 💡

New Zealand MP Marama Davidson wants people to stop using the word as a term of abuse.

They introduce kids to new books and encourage them to read. They're also trained to save lives. 📻

"Pretty much everyone I know has volunteered to test it" 📻

Adbukadir Mohamed Salad returned to Somalia after 25 years to launch one of the country's two dairies. However, the security situation wasn't the only challenge he faced.

"It can sometimes be the only other thing that's living...in your environment and your space. It just lifts your soul a little bit." 🌼🌵

Have the ancient classics been seen through a one-sided lens? Professor Emily Wilson is the first woman to translate the Odyssey into English.

Halfway between a firework display and a video, where the building is the star of the show.

Keiko Ihara didn't take "no" for an answer.. and smashed the glass ceiling. 💪 🏎️

After a marathon debate, Argentina's senate has rejected a bill which would have legalised abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy. 📻

President Trump has so far stayed silent on new sanctions over the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy and his daughter in Britain. 📻

Celibacy "enables me to appreciate women for who they are".

Rehabilitation can take many forms...

She was shot three times when militants attacked her campus in Kabul. She survived and has just graduated. 📻