A woman who convinced doctors to allow her to keep her amputated foot has set up an Instagram account on its behalf. 25-year-old Kristi Loyall was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in her right foot and doctors told her the only solution was to have it amputated. "My first reaction was to make a joke of it," she tells Newsbeat. "So I was like 'Hey can I have my foot back.'"
Documentary which exposes the supply of ever younger girl models to the Japanese modelling industry. Show more Documentary which exposes the supply of ever younger girl models to the Japanese modelling industry. The film follows 13-year-old Nadya from poverty in Siberia to the city of Tokyo and a life as a model. American scout Ashley promises her a lucrative career, but all is not as it seems as
Hiroki Ogita was upset at the media's reporting of and social media's response to the incident Japanese pole vaulter Hiroki Ogita has described his bewilderment after reports his penis had prevented him from progressing in the Rio Olympics went viral. A video of the athlete hitting the bar with what looked to some like his penis under his shorts quickly spread online. His leg had already made cont
Buried without a name The untold story of Europe's drowned migrants More than 1,250 unnamed men, women and children have been buried in unmarked graves in 70 sites in Turkey, Greece and Italy since 2014, a BBC investigation has found. The majority died trying to cross the Mediterranean to seek a new life in Europe. Over the past two years an estimated 8,000 people have lost their lives trying to c
The researchers used data taken from the Github program-sharing platform New research shows that software coding changes suggested by women had higher approval ratings than those from men - but only if their gender was not identifiable. The US researchers analysed nearly 1.4 million users of the open source program-sharing service Github. Ratings for women fell if they were not regulars on the ser
Are we witnessing the end of "Abenomics"? Has Japan's grand attempt to reflate the world's third largest economy failed? In the last two weeks we've seen the country's central bank, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) cross in to uncharted territory, pushing interest rates below zero for the first time ever. In just two days last week the Japanese stock market tumbled nearly 8%, erasing most of the gains of t
Great views. Sleeps six What's it like to live on the International Space Station? There are currently seven billion people living on Earth. Although our lives differ in countless ways - almost all of us share some common experiences. Each day we all do things so routine we don't even think about them; such as raising our heads from the pillow each morning or maybe looking for something to put on
How the new legislation will change Japan's military role on the international stage Japan's parliament has voted to allow the military to fight overseas for the first time since the end of World War Two 70 years ago. A vote on the new law was delayed for several hours as the opposition tried to stop the measure coming into force. Outside, demonstrators rallied in a last-ditch show of protest. Man
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