Forty-five years ago an American spy ship was captured by North Korean forces.

The crew of USS Pueblo were held for almost a year, but they found small ways to resist.

'Skip' Carl Schumacher, a 24 year-old 1st Lieutenant, who was on board USS Pueblo, describes their ordeal.

Photo: USS Pueblo's crew taken by North Korean military.

At the end of World War Two, millions of people in the west of Nazi-occupied Netherlands faced starvation.

The lucky ones survived on watery bread, potato peel or tulip bulbs.

Witness speaks to one Dutchman who lived through what became known as the Hunger Winter.

PHOTO: Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

It is 19 years since the heir to the Syrian presidency died in a car crash. His younger brother Bashar, would eventually become the next President. Hear from someone who knew him well.

Photo: AP Wire.

Thirty years ago, the former Gestapo chief, Klaus Barbie, was arrested in Bolivia.

He had been in hiding in South America since 1949.

Nazi hunters, Serge and Beate Klarsfeld, helped track him down.

Photo: Klaus Barbie on his way to court in Lyon, France (AFP)

In the 1960s, the Ghanaian football team dominated Africa, winning tournament after tournament.

Known as the Black Stars, they were an exciting attacking force which President Kwame Nkrumah hoped would help promote African unity.

But in 1965, the Ghanaians faced an uphill struggle in the final of the Africa Cup of Nations in Tunis.

Their star striker, Osei Kofi, remembers the match for Witness.

PHOTO: Osei Kofi speaking to the BBC.

In 1973 the landmark decision was made in the US Supreme Court which made abortion legal. Hear from the young lawyer who brought the case. Her name was Sarah Weddington and she was fresh out of law school.

Photo: Sarah Weddington.

It is 120 years since the birth of the great Expressionist painter. Born near Minsk he lived most of his life in Paris. His works influenced Western artists for decades after his death in 1943.

Image: La Jeune Anglaise. Credit: Musee de l'Orangerie, Paris.

For nearly 40 years, the US government conducted an experiment on a group of African-American men without their knowledge - to see what would happen if their syphilis was left untreated.

Photo: US National Archive.

When the earthquake and tsunami of December 2004 hit Indonesia, over 130,000 people died.

Dendy Montgomery was living in the city of Banda Aceh which was laid waste by the disaster.

Photo:People in Banda Aceh try to save a man from the waters of the tsunami. AFP

Islamist rebel groups in Northern Mali recently announced a ban on music in all areas under their control.