BBC News Long Reads

The story behind Britain's fifth Grand Tour winner is "the stuff of comic books". Here's how Tao Geoghegan Hart rose to success.

Four Syrians say they enlisted for sentry duties in Azerbaijan and were sent to the Nagorno-Karabakh front line.

A nine-year prison sentence for rape did not stop Robinho's return. Campaigners believe that highlights bigger problems in Brazil.

Reporter Fateh Al-Rahman Al-Hamdani writes about his experience of secretly filming inside Sudan's Islamic boarding schools to expose abuse, and reveals why the investigation was so personal to him.

Judy Heumann has fought all her life to challenge the stereotypes and misconceptions associated with disability.

Melvin McNair hijacked a US airliner with his wife and children and then became a model French citizen.

Christian Picciolini became a Nazi skinhead as a teenager but now he fights extremism.

The death of Nigel Demaline's wife, Pauline, of Covid-19, prompted him to help test a new vaccine.

The "toxic" plans to reform football detailed in 'Project Big Picture' have not been dismissed and "change is coming". This is why.

Andrei Ostapovich quit his job as a Belarusian police officer, was detained in Russia, then escaped to Poland.

A new inquest into the death of Ella Adoo-Kissi-Debrah could list air pollution as a cause of her death.

Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy made a fortune in doughnuts then lost it all to gambling.

Fourteen years after a woman's body was found in Yorkshire, will the mystery of her death be solved?

The pandemic has made it harder for carers to get any respite. So who looks after them?

Built on coal, Colstrip has been under threat for years. It may not matter who sits in the Oval Office.

Nearly a year into her job, Finnish PM Sanna Marin says it's 'everyone's job to identify themselves'.

The story behind the plaque: the fast life and freakishly unlucky death of Karl Edwards.