Pizza, pasta, potatoes, protein - how Italian children became so overweight

The Mediterranean diet was a blueprint for healthy living, yet Italian children are among the most overweight in Europe according to WHO.

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Smash hit: How Alex Eala's Wimbledon run made everyday Filipinos fall in love with tennis

Formerly the preserve of the rich, tennis is booming in the basketball- and boxing-obsessed country.

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'The dogs were getting upset': How LA band Muna survived their worst ever gig

The group discuss disastrous gigs, putting political action into music and the meaning of "queer pop".

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Could you run a country on just three hours of sleep? Japan's PM says she does

Japan’s prime minister Sanae Takaichi says she survives on zero to three hours a night, and people are reacting.

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Blocked by censors, China's animal lovers take fight against abuse offline and overseas

The killing of a dog and her puppies in Guangdong has sparked outrage inside and outside the country.

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A year after deadly jet crash at Bangladesh school, families demand answers

This week marks one year since a military jet struck a school in Dhaka, killing 36, most of them children.

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Indian police cracked down on 'cockroach' protesters. They went home and made memes about it

For 'cockroach' protesters, reels and memes became a way of documenting fear, making sense of violence and refusing to let it have the last word.

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