Britain's streets are famous for their potholes, created when the road surface cracks due to bad weather.
Locals up and down the country, fed up of waiting for the authorities to fix them, are embracing more and more extreme measures.
Some communities mark National Pothole Day, while one street artist started spraying penis pictures around them - getting them fixed within 48 hours.
Brits reflect on the state of the roads and whether grafitti is the only response in one of the newest gripping narratives from us at the dpa trends & features desk.
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TOP FEATURE: Britain's streets beset by potholes, harmful for people and traffic
British towing services are called out tens of thousands of times a month in the fight against the country's "pothole pandemic." Can the government, which plans to spend billions of pounds to tackle the problem, finally fix the issue or will a new anti-pothole robot beat London to it?
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Female surgeons in Germany want more women to pick up the scalpel
More than half of medical students in Germany are women but only 20% of them go on to train as surgeons. A network of female surgeons is working to change that.
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The ballet world is in transition - are dancers artists or athletes?
The ballet world has long been overshadowed by toxic body stereotypes and problematic training methods. But focus is shifting to safeguarding the well-being of dancers who train for hours on end every day.
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A Mexican city that once perfumed the world pushes to revive vanilla
In Papantla, vanilla used to dominate daily life and contributed to Mexico becoming the world's leading supplier of the aromatic spice more than a century ago. The rise of artificial vanilla contributed to the decline of Mexican production but Papantla is looking to reassert its profile.
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