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Two Egyptian women have come together to save the country’s lost Jewish heritage. Magda, who is Jewish and Marwa, who is Palestinian and Muslim, meet weekly to clean, rescue and repair books, synagogues and cemeteries. The Jewish community in Egypt shrank after the Israeli-Arab conflict in 1948. Many were exiled or felt forced to leave. […]

Russian activist Anastasia Shevchenko is facing six years in prison for her opposition political activism. Anastasia has been under strict house arrest awaiting trial for over a year – banned from communicating with anyone other than officials and her relatives. Those conditions have just been eased slightly, allowing her to talk about her case to

Ana Fernanda and Ana Luisa Bernal are 16-year-old twins and juniors in high school. Since kindergarten, they’ve crossed an international border every single day to go to school. The girls live in Mexicali, Mexico, with their mother but, being born in the US, they’re able to cross to get an education in English in Calexico,

Father Columba Stewart, a Benedictine monk from St Joseph’s Abbey, Minnesota, has travelled to Timbuktu with a team of experts to try and persuade the Imams of the City’s three great Mosques to allow them to digitise their highly endangered manuscript collections. Father Columba has watched on in horror as the Islamic State have systematically

Tourists pay 22 euros ($24) to visit La Pedrera, Barcelona. But not Ana Viladomiu, who has lived in the building for more than 30 years. The writer used to live in the apartment with her husband and daughters but now lives alone. Antoni Gaudi’s La Pedrera opened in 1912 and took six years to complete.

How is President Trump’s plan to solve the Israeli Palestinian conflict being received on the ground? The BBC’s Middle East correspondent Tom Bateman went to visit two homes in the occupied West Bank; starting with a Palestinian family whose house is in a fenced off enclave within an Israeli settlement. Israel has said it intends

What do you do if your town is broken? If nothing works? For many areas in South Africa that is a reality. But in the town of Harrismith one group of residents, sick of intermittent water and power have taken the matter into their own hands. Andrew Harding has been to find out how they

Dekyrion Ellis, who is in ninth-grade, said that he was lifted off the floor by a support resource officer at his high school after he had been involved in an altercation with a classmate. Jake Perry, an officer at Camden High School in Arkansas, is under investigation for use of excessive force and has been

Sudan’s rulers have agreed to hand over ex-President Omar al-Bashir to the International Criminal Court (ICC) to face genocide and war crimes charges. He is accused of serious crimes in a conflict that broke out in Darfur in 2003 and led to the deaths of 300,000. The conflict between rebels and government forces killed hundreds

For as long as BBC journalist Simon O’Leary can remember, he has always known he is gay. But as a child the idea terrified him, and he experienced suicidal thoughts. Now, he has returned to Dublin to reflect on growing up there. Ireland has since seen the legalisation of same-sex marriage and has had its