Pedestrianism was a sport of epic rivalries, eyewatering salaries, feverish nationalism, eccentric personalities and six-day, 450-mile walks.

How North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack.

On the rescue in July of two children from a burning apartment in southern France.

China is forcing hundreds of thousands of Uighurs and other minorities into hard, manual labour in the vast cotton fields of its western region of Xinjiang.

He was jailed for killing her daughter. Then she feared the police had the wrong man.

The story of a young man from rural Ghana who bought a pair of secret camera glasses and got himself smuggled across the Sahara, to film crime and exploitation along the way.

Jered Threatin tried to fake his way to fame and got caught red-handed. Or did he?

The families who are choosing to live in the exclusion zone’s ghost villages and nearby.

Inside one of America’s most corrupt police squads.

On sexual harassment in public housing, which can leave poor women homeless and without recourse.

Ringling Bros and Barnum & Bailey Circus performs the last shows of its 146 year run.

Why did a man travel 200 miles to die in a national park?

How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.

“‘Why does my dad have duct tape by his pillow?’”

He’s spent decades dodging the law. He’s escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He’s given millions to the poor. The story of how Vassilis Paleokostas, Greece’s most wanted man, became a folk hero.

Why six people admitted roles in two murders they most likely didn’t commit.

The author relives her Romanian youth and the imprisonment of her father through the Securitate files kept on her family.

The battle for Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Cristo Redentor statue.

How a man of little education and little means invented a simple machine that changed the lives of women in rural India.

With up to four million World War II soldiers considered missing in action on the Eastern front, a group of Russian volunteers vows to unearth, identify and properly bury their remains.

On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.