Overcoming Language Barriers

Fitore Gashi is a primary school teacher in Prizren in southern Kosovo. The school brings together two ethnic groups, Albanians and Romas. In a society with a lot of discrimination, it takes trust to convince parent to allow their children to be taught by a teacher of another ethnicity.

The War in Kosovo has left behind around 4,500 landmines and 90,000 explosive remains. Deminers such as 29-year-old Donjeta Krasniqi are working hard to make the land safe, a dangerous job that she finds highly rewarding.

28-year-old Marko Rakic runs an NGO in the Serbian area of Mitrovica. It helps young people to access training and supports social and cultural projects. He sees Serbians in Kosovo as second-class citizens, neglected by both Pristina and Belgrade.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

Discrimination against the LGBTQ+ community is on the rise across Europe, despite stronger equal rights laws.

Behind the glitzy facade of the World Cup... there's a darker side to the world of football.

To speed up deportations, the EU is set to authorise detention centres beyond its borders.

Political pressure and dwindling public funding mean that Europe’s museums are struggling to stay afloat.

As youth crime rises, some EU nations want to lower the age of criminal responsibility and jail minors.

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

An old man swims in the sea. As he moves through the water, memories resurface... 

Lulu's young, and carefree. And pregnant. She's not ready. What now? 

Art Spiegelman’s Maus is an important literary work dealing with the holocaust. A deeply personal story, the graphic novel tells the tale of Spiegelman’s father’s experiences as a Polish Jew during World War 2. In a highly original way the work brings together past and present, memory and trauma.