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Emperor Justinian I and Empress Theodora were the 6th Century golden couple of the Byzantine Empire. Think Jay-Z and Beyonce ...

Journalist Zakee Kuduro explores the science of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and why an understanding of the fundamentals of physics and knowing ...

Haunted by post-socialist nostalgia, 25-year-old director Hanwen Zhang returns to the factory town where he was born, in north-east China. ...

Rival villagers from the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh take part in an annual fireball battle. Over the years several ...

Male pageants have become a growing trend in South Korea. But what does it take to be crowned as the ...

What do humans and Asian tree shrews have in common? We are the only two mammals known to tolerate the ...

In the Lingala language 'Nalingi Yo' means 'I love you'. In this short film, multidisciplinary artist Rachel Isabel Mukendi explores ...

400 years ago, women in China's Hunan province had their feet bound and were confined to their chamber rooms. To ...

Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less happy times. For Nenda ...

Your friend’s address. A family holiday as a child. The name of that lady you see at work every day. ...