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Ukraine's 'Maidan Revolution'

Throughout the winter of 2013/14 protesters camped out in the centre of Kyiv

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The 1972 mass killings in Burundi

In 1972 Burundi鈥檚 Tusti led army massacred Hutu civilians following a Hutu led uprising

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The first LGBT film in war-torn Yugoslavia

How the ground-breaking film "Marble Ass" was made amid war in the former Yugoslavia

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"Don't ask, don't tell" in the US Armed Forces

For decades LGBT people in the US military had to keep their sexuality secret.

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The Berlin Patient

Timothy Ray Brown was the first person in the world to be cured of HIV/AIDS.

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Bollywood's pioneering lesbian drama

"Fire" was one of the first films in Indian history to depict a lesbian relationship.

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The world's first civil union

In 1989, Denmark became the first country to celebrate same-sex civil unions

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The first sex worker strike

When 200 French sex workers took refuge in a church in Lyon, it started a movement.

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Nixon in China

The historic visit by the American president which normalised US relations with China.

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The Navajo Code Talkers in World War 2

The Native American soldiers who talked in a secret code, helping the Allies to victory

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The death of Trayvon Martin

The black Florida teenager killed by a Neighbourhood Watch volunteer while buying sweets.

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The 2014 annexation of Crimea

A personal account of how Russia took over the Crimean peninsula in 2014

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Economic 'shock therapy' in Russia

Chaos and hardship hit Russia when free-market reforms were introduced overnight in 1992

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Putin's war in Chechnya

An eyewitness account of the Russian invasion of the breakaway republic in 1999

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Boris Yeltsin's surprise resignation

How the Russian president quit and apologised to the nation in a New Year's Eve address.

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The takeover of NTV in Russia

How NTV journalists tried in vain to keep their station out of President Putin's control.

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Russia's war in Georgia in 2008

First-hand accounts of Russia's battle with another former Soviet republic in 2008.

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Anna Akhmatova - Voice of Russia

How the great poet kept writing even through the darkest days of Soviet history.

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Gloria Steinem and Ms Magazine

The launch of the first magazine in America owned, run and written by women

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The Australian women who protested against the Vietnam war

The Fairlea Five were jailed in 1971 for campaigning against military conscription.

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Iranian Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi

The Iranian human rights lawyer who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003: Dr Shirin Ebadi

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The Wages for Housework campaign

How feminists in Italy began an international campaign for payment for housework in 1972.

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The Frauenkirche - Dresden's symbol of war and reconstruction

The story of the painstaking project to rebuild Dresden's historic baroque church.

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Chandigarh: India's city of the future

How the modernist architect Le Corbusier designed a city for newly-independent India

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Teheran's Freedom Tower

The vast monument built for the Shah, but now a centrepiece for protests in Iran.

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Zaha Hadid's Cincinnati Arts Center

The ground-breaking building was the first American museum to be designed by a woman

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The Shard

The building of the controversial London skyscraper, designed by Italian Renzo Piano.

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The Chernobyl nuclear disaster

In 1986, a reactor exploded in Soviet Ukraine causing the worst nuclear accident ever.

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The Budapest Memorandum

The security "assurances" offered to Ukraine after it gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994

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The Holodomor: Ukraine's great famine

Several million people died in the 1930s in what became known as The Holodomor

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