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Hello, Greg Jenner here, host of You're Dead to Me.

In my new family-friendly podcast series, Dead Funny History, historical figures come back to life for just about long enough to argue with me, tell us their life stories, and sometimes get on my nerves.

There's 15 lovely episodes to unwrap, including the life of Ramses the Great, Josephine Baker, and the history of football, plus much, much more.

So this Christmas, give your ears a treat with Dead Funny History.

You can find it in the You're Dead to Me feed on BBC.com or wherever you get your podcasts.

Discover brilliant podcasts from the BBC World Service.

The amount of victims in such a short time was unbelievable.

From the BBC World Service, this is Cyberhack Evilcore.

The story of a cybercrime case that stretches from small-town America to the back streets of Moscow.

This is the Global News Podcast.

For anyone who's taken out a personal loan or has a mortgage, you won't need telling how annoying high interest rates are.

But it's not an experience they're used to in Japan, where for decades interest rates have been hovering around zero or even below zero.

The aim was to stimulate the economy, which for many years stagnated.

But now the Bank of Japan has raised its interest rate to its highest level in 30 years, putting it up by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75%.

Our business correspondent Nick Marsh told Alex Ritson what's going on.

It's been nearly two weeks since fighting broke out again between Thai and Cambodian forces over a disputed border.

Efforts to broker a ceasefire, even by President Trump, have made little progress.

The Thai army, which is much bigger and better equipped than Cambodia's, is slowly gaining ground, while its air force continues to bomb targets across the border.

The Cambodian government says it wants to return to the ceasefire signed in July.