Watch the full 47 minute documentary broadcast on BBC News and iPlayer here.
On 6 January 2020 supporters of outgoing US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol. Many of them were followers of the QAnon conspiracy theory, which saw Trump as a hero who would defeat a Satan-worshipping global cabal. A survey by the polling organisation Ipsos Mori has found that 7% of Americans still believe this conspiracy theory. So who are these people? The BBC’s Stephanie Hegarty travelled to the US to find out .
All over the world cities are grappling with apocalyptic air pollution but the small capital of Mongolia is suffering from some of the worst in the world.
Watch our report below which was broadcast across the BBC including on our flagship news programme the News at Ten.
On a scheme that has been running for decades, foreign workers in Japan are being exploited. We found some of these overworked and underpaid migrants making clothes for big brands like Comme des Garcons.
Watch the full 23min documentary on iPlayer here
Migrant YouTubers trying to get to Europe illegally and documenting every step of their wild journeys to fans back home.
On a road that’s isolating and dangerous they’re finding support and friendship online. But could they be encouraging other young people to risk their lives in search of a dream that they might never find? Stephanie Hegarty met two of these Youtube stars on their journey to find out.
A bizarre conspiracy theory has surged in popularity in the US since the pandemic, according to exclusive research seen by the BBC.
This story aired on Newsnight, World News, World Service radio and across BBC News platforms online.
Half of the world's workers could lose their jobs because of this pandemic, the International Labour Organisation has said.
That's 1.6 billion people but who are they?
Broadcast across the BBC including the News at Ten.
In February 2018, 110 girls were taken from their secondary school in Dapchi town in north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram militants. For two days the government denied any children were taken.
The BBC’s Stephanie Hegarty was the first international broadcaster to visit the school where they were taken.
Falmata is getting a full beauty treatment - a thick paste of henna, with its delicate pointed swirls adorns her feet.
While it dries a woman is battling with her hair. Comb in hand she's stretching and straightening Falmata's tight curls.
Falmata knows she'll look beautiful but there's a deadly consequence.
Once she's been made up, a suicide bomb will be attached to her waist...
Dr Li Wenliang was hailed a hero for raising the alarm about the coronavirus in the early days of the outbreak but a few weeks later he died of Covid-19.
His death was confirmed by the Wuhan hospital where he had worked and was also being treated, following conflicting reports about his condition on state media.
Read Dr Li’s story
James Smith is angry and hurt and tired. Every death of a black person at the hands of a police officer takes him back to the moment in October when Atatiana Jefferson was killed.
"I have to live with this guilt, with this cloud hanging over me for the rest of my years," he says. Because he was the reason that the police were there that night.
Read Mr Smith’s story
This long read won the Foreign Press Association Award for Best Print and Web News Story of the Year 2017.
In April 2014 Islamist militants kidnapped 276 girls from their school in Chibok in north-eastern Nigeria. In May 2017 dozens were released. But when will the rest be free?
What’s it like to have millions of fans when you’re 10? What’s it like to have thousands of people insult and adore you? Welcome to the strange world of social media superstars.
Stephanie Hegarty meets the young people whose lives are built around likes, but are increasingly suffering from mental health problems and burn out.
It was dark, in the early hours of a Sunday morning, when he called.
A stormy wet wind was spitting at the kitchen window. The table was a mess of phones and laptops, wires and mugs.
Carlos and Jacinta had been answering calls all night. It had gone quiet for a short while - and then the phone rang again.
On the other end of a crackling line a man spoke in broken English.
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The US Supreme Court is considering a case that could put hundreds and thousands of people who were brought into the country illegally as children at risk of deportation. Some of those are healthcare workers dealing with the coronavirus pandemic.
At the beginning of April a long line of police cars snaked slowly around a hospital in Winston-Salem, North Carolina with their blue lights flashing in the bright sun…
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Dan Price was hiking with his friend Valerie in the Cascade mountains that loom majestically over Seattle, when he had an uncomfortable revelation.
As they walked, she told him that her life was in chaos, that her landlord had put her monthly rent up by $200 and she was struggling to pay her bills.
And suddenly it struck him that he was part of the problem…
Read Dan’s story - one of the most read features on the BBC website this year
Monique Jackson believes she caught Covid-19 early in the pandemic and nearly six months later she's still unwell. One of thousands in this position, she has been keeping an illustrated diary about her symptoms and her vain attempts to get treatment.
About a year ago, Monique Jackson watched a Ted talk about mushrooms and was enthralled. Fungi, the speaker said, are the original world wide web, they have a network that runs under entire forests; it enables trees to help each other if they get into trouble.
These days, as she battles the coronavirus for the 24th week in a row, it's something she thinks about often.
Read Monique’s story
The war between the Seleka and the anti-Balaka in Central African Republic has been waging for many years, thousands of children have been recruited by both sides and trained to kill.
