Many black Americans are embracing the natural curls and coils in their hair. But there’s been a backlash against black hairstyles in classrooms and companies across America.

Toddlers and teens have been kicked out of school because of their hair, while many adults face losing their jobs. We get to the root of why this kind of discrimination is so common – and legal – in the US and find out what it will take to stop it.

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Today, Laura and Joe are looking at what might be in a new deal between the UK and European Union.

An agreement is expected at a summit later this month, and Prime Minister Andy Burnham has been saying he wants a closer relationship with the EU.

Laura has spoken to the EU’s former Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, who warns that the UK cannot pick and choose which elements of the EU’s single market it wants to adopt.

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Democrat Scott Colom has won the US Senate race in Mississippi, delivering a shock victory for the party in a deeply conservative …

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A wave of intense and, at times, unpredictable storms exacerbated by the El Niño weather pattern has killed dozens, shuttered major airports and wiped out crops and infrastructure across a swathe of East Asia.

El Niño is a naturally occurring climate phenomenon in which warm waters pooling in the eastern Pacific and altered wind patterns drive extreme weather events around the world. It happens around every two to seven years, lasting for around a year.

This year’s El Niño, which the UK Met Office has forecast to be the “strongest in living memory”, is likely to last until February or March.

Wild weather is a way of life for people living along the coast in the Philippines, Taiwan, China and Japan but the BBC examines how the last few months have been extraordinary.

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People in Helmand Province might be exhausted and desperate after many years of war and violence.

But every Friday night, they still gather in dimly-lit rooms for a laugh and card games – right under the Taliban’s nose.

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