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BBC.com Content Index - 18 08 2018

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National Grid transformer

Large load 'to cause road disruption'

The 143-tonne transformer is likely to create traffic problems as it travels to West Weybridge.

Rodrigo Cisneros harvesting quinoa

The superfood changing farmers' lives

Farmers have grown quinoa for millennia, but can they withstand growing international competition?

Nigerian Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo beside his wife Dolapo - 2018

Why Nigeria's favourite leader won't become president - yet

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo is being praised for his leadership skills but he is unlikely to be president any time soon.

Cactus sculpture

From plastic trash to plastic treasure

Czech artist Veronika Richterova is teaching children how to reuse plastic bottles.

N. Vietnamese Lt. Col. Bui Tin (r), official spokesman for the N. Vietnamese delegation to the JMC, shakes hands with unidentified American Airforce SGT

The communist reporter scrubbed from the history books

Bui Tin had a front-row seat as Vietnam changed. But his name went on to be erased from history.

Shirley, daughter Rhiannon, and Bethan's friend Sarah

Dementia patient to finally see Mamma Mia

Shirley Lewis will see the film after being made to feel unwelcome at a previous screening.

A Saudi woman looks at a painting during a forum in Riyadh, 15 November 2017 (file photo)

'We are real': Saudi feminists launch online radio

Female activists turn to internet broadcasts to seek more rights for women in Saudi Arabia.

Marley in hospital

The six-year-old who 'needs a life saver'

Marley Nicholls loves diggers and the garden but "desperately" needs a bone marrow transplant.

Supporters of New Democracy leader Antonis Samaras wave flags during a pre-election speech in Athens, 3 May 2012

End of Greek bailouts offers little hope to young

Politicians hail the end of Greece's emergency credit, but ordinary Greeks see little change.

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