The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

An examination of how damaging a coronal mass ejection could be and how two new satellites that will travel closer to the sun than ever before can better prepare us. Show more

Jim Al-Khalili tells how the first 'natural philosophers' began to unlock electricity's mysteries, studying its curious link to life and building instruments to create it. Show more

The series exploring the world of animal senses examines how smells can be used both as a defence against sharks and in controlling a swarm of bees' behaviour. Show more

Dallas Campbell delves into the Horizon archives to chart the deadly disasters that have paradoxically helped make air travel today the safest it has ever been. Show more

Using the BBC film archives, Vanessa Collingridge explores how our view of Cleopatra has changed over the years, and how she has become lost amid myth, cliche and propaganda. Show more

Actor Mark Gatiss celebrates the life and work of John Minton - a highly prolific and successful artist of the 20th century, whose work is now all but forgotten. Show more

The BBC opens up its vaults to reveal the forgotten files on the world's most famous secret agent. Featuring rare and candid interviews with all six actors to play 007. Show more

Dr Bendor Grosvenor and social historian Emma Dabiri travel to Tiverton in Devon to investigate a portrait of Rembrandt in the collection of Knightshayes Court. Show more

Jim Al-Khalili tells how the first 'natural philosophers' began to unlock electricity's mysteries, studying its curious link to life and building instruments to create it. Show more