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Nomadic communities in Kenya, including the Samburu, Maasai and Turkana peoples, traverse large areas of arid and semi-arid countryside in search of water and pasture for their livestock. The nearest hospitals and clinics are very far away and the communities are often unable to access the medical help they need. But there may now be […]

Hiyori Kon, 22, is an amateur sumo wrestling champion in Japan where women are still barred from competing professionally. Hiyori is hoping to change the rules of one of the world’s oldest sports, and give a voice to women in sumo. She is one of the BBC’s 100 Women 2019 and the subject of award-winning

The Bloodhound is half race car and half space ship, and a team from the UK are hoping it will eventually be the world’s fastest car. It clocked 501mph on Wednesday, during a series of tests in South Africa. But it is still at least a year off attempting to break the land speed record

Caitlyn Jenner is “the great double”, she’s an Olympic decathlon champion and Glamour’s woman of the year. Born Bruce Jenner she struggled with gender dysphoria – a mismatch between someone’s biological sex and their gender identity. Her greatest sporting moment came at the 1976 Olympic games in Montreal where she saw off the Soviet challenge

Young people in Lebanon are demanding an overhaul of the political system, as protests enter a third week. Anti-government sentiment is still high, despite the resignation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. He stepped down last week, which was one of protesters’ key demands. Many people want the entire political system to be replaced. They blame

Pro-Beijing lawmaker Junius Ho is one of the most controversial politicians in Hong Kong, and has been heavily criticised by pro-democracy protesters. Mr Ho was campaigning for an upcoming election when he was attacked by a man who appeared to pose as a supporter. The attacker was arrested shortly afterwards. Video of the incident surfaced

Cities are supposed to be built for all of us, but they aren’t built by all of us. Every city in the world has been designed and built by men. But what if the other half had a go? Barcelona might be able to give us that answer. For the past four years the city

Thousands of Iraqi anti-government protesters have occupied an abandoned high-rise building in the centre of Baghdad. Known as the “Turkish Restaurant”, the 1980s construction had been largely empty since it was bombed during the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq. The protesters say it has been used by snipers. Since 1 October, more than 250 people

Eight year-old Ayeyi has brittle bones and has endured multiple fractures since birth. The condition known as Osteogenesis Imperfecta or OI can cause bones to break at the slightest movement. But despite the pain a fracture brings, Ayeyi loves to dance and refuses to let her condition define her. Video produers: Pauline Odhiambo and Anne

US comedian Jim Meskimen has used his impressionist skills to help create a deepfake video. Deepfakes are fake videos of others created using machine learning. Meskimen recorded a video of 20 different impressions. Over 20,000 images for each face were used to train the system and create the deepfake video. BBC Click finds out more.