The former monk who runs a $100m meditation firm
The BBC’s weekly The Boss series profiles different business leaders from around the world. This week we speak to Andy Puddicombe and Richard Pierson,...
Why food memories are so powerful
Lured by a food from her childhood, a woman returns to a country that no longer exists to confront her family’s secret past.
I was...
‘All bets now off’ on which ape was humanity’s ancestor
Researchers have discovered a nearly complete 3.8-million-year-old skull of an early ape-like human ancestor in Ethiopia.
An analysis of the new specimen challenges ideas about...
Nigeria’s Weightlifter, Rafiatu Lawal
In a school in central Kenya sits a small building that was once used by British colonial forces to torture detainees.
A weather-beaten sign on...
Khachaturyan sisters who killed father touch Russian hearts
In July 2018 three teenage sisters stabbed and battered their father to death in his sleep, in their Moscow flat.
Investigators have confirmed the girls’...
