Mapping the World

 Relations between Israel and the European Union have been going through a period of considerable turbulence. 

In India and China, after decades of preference for boys, baby girls are desirable once more and birth rates are up.

Citizens of North Korea trying to flee the country risk their lives as China hunts them down.

Since the end of the Cold War, Romania has seen its population decline with millions emigrating to work in Western Europe. 

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

French artist Jaybo Monk lives and works in Berlin, where he dedicates himself to urban art and to supporting a charity for the blind

With Keir Starmer ‘s resignation, British politics is still unstable after six prime ministers in the ten years since the Brexit vote.

When Pope Leo XIV spoke out against war, President Trump criticised the leader of the catholic church, which caused a backlash.

The UN is in crisis as its Special Rapporteur accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza. Will Palestine be its downfall?

Marking the opening of the 60th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, RAYE invites a host of international pop stars to join her on stage for an evening of music.

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

Legendary Berlin duo Modeselektor return to Sónar Festival with a new live set of eclectic rave sounds.

With Keir Starmer ‘s resignation, British politics is still unstable after six prime ministers in the ten years since the Brexit vote.

Audio pornography leaves room for the imagination while arousing the listener with erotic stories

Cologne, Autumn 1944: In the bombed-out city, a small group of young people put up armed resistance against the Nazi regime

Despite its shift toward authoritarianism, Turkey is a strategic partner for the EU.

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

Loulou is the hilarious story of the unbreakable friendship between Loulou and her three best friends Alice, Marie and Max. Season 1 follows the four friends as they deal with her unplanned pregnancy. And when her child appears in season 2 it's just the beginning of Loulou’s travails.

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?