Dawa Sherpa was presumed dead after becoming stranded on Mount Everest's upper slopes with few supplies. But after six days he was spotted sliding and crawling towards base camp. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod
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News, views and highlights from the BBC's international radio station.
Joined February 2007
- The Fifa Men’s World Cup has the Unexpected Elements team exploring all things football. 🎧 The news you know, the science you don’t
- Two honey hunters in Indonesia regularly climb up gigantic trees with no harness in search of wild bee honey. 🐝 🎧 Click below for more stories on people using extreme methods to forage for food bbc.in/43AqcHN
00:00 - Ten African nations are taking part at the Fifa men's World Cup - but could any of them take the title? A special bonus podcast from More than the Score assesses their chances. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod
- Is the internet dividing men and women? 🎧 Essential stories form Africa explained
- What reading novels does for our minds, our imaginations and our well-being. 🎧 Health issues and medical breakthroughs from around the world
- After Mexico City on Thursday, the men’s football World Cup arrives in Toronto and Los Angeles. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod
- Following the path of the rose: what does it mean to walk in Mary Magdalene’s footsteps today? 🎧 A window into our world, through in-depth storytelling
- The survivor king - in 1970 King Hussein of Jordan escaped unharmed after gunmen opened fire on his motorcade. 🎧 Hear the events that have shaped our world through the eyes of the people who were there
- Not this time for Somali World Cup referee Omar Artan - the US denying him entry is the latest setback for African nations. 🎧
- Earlier this week, the Taliban used live fire to disperse women from taking part in a protest in the city of Herat, reportedly killing two women. 🎧 What is it like being a woman living under Taliban rule? bbc.in/4oyzptN
00:00 - David Hockney, the British artist best known for his vivid painting style, has died at the age of 88. His career spanned seven decades, using painting, printmaking, photography and. more recently, digital art to depict his native Yorkshire and adopted home of California.
- Tributes are pouring in for the painter, David Hockney - known as one of the most influential modern artists and one of the best-known British contributors to Pop Art. 🎧 #GlobalNewsPod
