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Every past FIVEBREAK story, each with its audio, advanced vocabulary and an interactive English test. New to FIVEBREAK? Read what it is.
- How did tracking smallpox cases help the world declare the disease eradicated in 1980?
- How did aircraft keep western Berlin supplied without breaking through its surface blockade?
- How did Warsaw's rebuilt Old Town become World Heritage?
- How did one-dollar contracts help nine women change professional tennis?
- Why does Xbox’s Adaptive Controller have 19 sockets for external controls?
- Why did America withdraw the gold promise underpinning other countries’ currencies in 1971?
- Why would fighting dengue mean breeding more mosquitoes?
- Why will Australia lead climate negotiations at a summit hosted and presided over by Türkiye?
- How did San Francisco’s displaced ground reveal the earthquake cycle we still recognise today?
- Why did the Library of Congress buy slower records for blind readers?
- How did PC gaming hardware help AlexNet win an image-recognition competition?
- Why did Britain's pension safety strategies need urgent cash even as pension finances improved in 2022?
- How did doctors tailor a gene-editing medicine to just one baby?
- Why are finance ministers debating money that harms nature at a biodiversity summit?
- Why did France propose sharing control of coal and steel with its former enemy?
- Why did copyright owners destroy silent films for their silver?
- How did Australia II's comeback take the America's Cup from Rhode Island to Fremantle?
- How did a three-week gaming challenge help unlock a protein structure?
- How did a pension safety strategy help destabilise Britain's government-bond market in 2022?
- How did hitting an asteroid’s moon change the pair’s orbit around the Sun?
- Why should governments check a nature promise before its deadline?
- How did France turn Britain's deep-water refuge at Yorktown into a trap?
- Why did saving Abu Simbel mean cutting its temples into pieces?
- Why did FIFA extend paid leave to mothers who had not given birth?
- How did Japan’s console-purchase lotteries help test whether gaming improves well-being?
- Why can an AI investment boom and an energy shock both drive prices higher?
- Why is a reaction’s product not always the end of the story?
- Why are developing countries paying out more on debt than new financing brings in?
- Why did penicillin's discoverer warn in 1945 that antibiotic misuse could undermine treatment?
- Why is teaching a language different from teaching in it?
- Why put Olympic swimming inside an American-football stadium?
- When does a button press in a free game become permission to pay?
- Why can a low transfer fee still leave less money arriving home?
- Why can HIV prevention leave the daily pill behind, but not regular care?
- How did an invasion of Egypt produce the UN’s first peacekeeping force?
- Why did American railroads give communities two noons in 1883?
- Why is a 1930 Agatha Christie novel free to republish in America but not Britain?
- Why can a 2.1 m/s breeze keep a 100-metre time out of the record books?
- Why can the wrong cuff add almost 20 points to a blood-pressure reading?
- Why can opening a second savings account leave your protection unchanged?
- How can a constant of nature replace a kilogram of metal?
- Can Earth’s gravity really steer a spacecraft to Jupiter?
- Do you know how much electricity AI’s data centres could consume by 2030?
- Do you know why 28 September 1960 mattered to two African countries?
- Do you know how El Niño could put culture at risk?