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The Chinese Fentanyl King
How did a graduate from China’s top university become an alleged drug kingpin in Mexico?
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The latest five minute news bulletin from BBC World Service.
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The world's Newsroom brings you global events as they happen
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The latest two minute news summary from BBC World Service.
Alex Rose: The engineer making athletics history for Samoa
Alex Rose won Samoa's first World Athletics Championship medal while working full-time
The start of the Mexican Wave
On 15 October 1981, fans stood up and sat down in sections at a baseball game in the US
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Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world.
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Silicon
Misha Glenny and guests discuss the biology, physics, and chemistry of Silicon
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Insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers from around the world.
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A weekly programme looking at the science that's changing our world.
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Essential insights and conversations on the stories shaping the Asia-Pacific region
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A review of the week with the latest news.
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The Food Chain examines the business, science and cultural significance of food, and what it takes to put food on your plate.
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How to reuse and repair
The people finding new ways to keep old things in use
19/07/2026 09:30 GMT
At the heart of global storytelling, with BBC journalists from all around the world
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Tim Harford explains the numbers and statistics in the news and in life.
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How major news stories are affecting the lives of people around the world
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Euthanasia in Spain – whose life is it anyway?
The fall-out from the death by euthanasia of Noelia Castillo in Spain earlier this year
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Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
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Stories on why we find it so hard to save our own planet, and how we might change that.
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Positive news stories
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Live sport from around the world with news, interviews and analysis.
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BBC World Service cuts: What is being lost?
We discuss changes at the BBC World Service and the shows that will be lost
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The news you know, the science you don't.
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