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How covid changed China’s commercial capital
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A radio station at a Texan prison is creating community and changing inmates' lives
A ‘Me Too’ moment for Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews?
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jews struggle to come to terms with child sex abuse scandals
Argentina: Life with hyperinflation
Living with hyperinflation in Argentina – how do people cope with everyday life?
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Bye-bye Baguette?
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The brain drain
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Svalbard’s climate change fight
Svalbard is estimated to be heating at six times the global average
America’s Dropbox Babies
America’s Safe Haven laws for new-born babies – an alternative to abortion?
Iraq: Under poisoned skies
The toxic impact of gas flaring on people and the environment in southern Iraq
China's accidental activists
The women battling the Chinese state after their loved ones were jailed as dissidents
Trouble in Taiwan?
What do Taiwanese people think about the increased rhetoric from China in recent months?
Cold-calling Siberia
How has Putin's war against Ukraine affected one remote city in Siberia?
California's cannabis reparations
Giving communities targeted in the 'war on drugs' a share in the legal cannabis boom
Hungary’s Power Dilemma
The nuclear power plant in Hungary being built by Russia; will the Ukraine war stop it?
Spain's flamenco on the edge
Can Spain's most iconic live music and dance recover from the pandemic?
Fighting 'fat-phobia' in Brazil
The Brazilian city passing laws to fight discrimination against people who are obese
South Korea: A room with a view
How a housing crisis contributes to a population problem
Saving children from the mafia
Why an Italian judge is taking kids away from Mafia families
A return to Paradise
Survivors rebuild a town destroyed by one of the worst wildfires in California's history
Iran Protests: Tales from the frontline
Why did people take to the streets, risking arrest and a barrage of bullets?
Uruguay’s cash cow
How does Uruguay’s beef industry compete with their neighbours and climate change threats
The great German sausage crisis
Who is going to make the sausages in Germany if no-one wants to be a butcher?
On the frontline of Brexit
David Baker assesses the impact of Brexit in Northern Ireland
The parallel universe of Russia’s war
How were Russians persuaded to support a war against their closest neighbour Ukraine?
Nigeria's battle against bandits
Fighting the powerful criminal gangs terrorising rural Nigeria
Ireland’s Urban Horses
The young working class Irish people keeping horses in urban areas.
Killer drug: The Mexico connection
Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid killing thousands of Americans – it is made in Mexico
Killer drug: Fentanyl in the US
The synthetic opioid that’s destroying thousands of lives in southern California
Finland’s uneasy relationship with its neighbour
How has Finland managed its relationship with its unpredictable neighbour, Russia?
Vienna: Getting housing right
Does Vienna have the world’s best public housing? Chris Bowlby reports
Gran Chaco: Paraguay’s vanishing forest
A massive new road across Paraguay threatens a fragile eco-system and two communities
Leaving Sri Lanka
Record numbers are fleeing the island in the wake of a brutal economic crisis.
Laos: The most bombed country on earth
Fifty years since the last US bombs fell on Laos, they’re still killing and maiming
Kenya's free money experiment
Why thousands of Kenyan villagers are being given free cash
Searching for my son
Omar’s son was pulled alive from the rubble of Turkey’s earthquake, but where is he?
Hard times in the Big Easy
New Orleans is the murder capital of the United States
Germany’s forests under threat
What can be done to save Germany’s forests?
Myanmar’s war in the air
The Myanmar military is struggling to suppress a pro-democracy uprising.
Ukraine: The men who don’t want to fight
Thousands of Ukrainian men are dodging the draft and risking their lives in the process
Catching a pervert
A BBC investigation exposes those profiting from the sexual assault of women in East Asia
The organ harvesters
How did a young man in Nigeria get caught up in an international plot?
What's happened to Iraq's Yazidis?
The ancient Iraqi community still can't go home years after fleeing Islamic State terror
Speaking for themselves
In South Africa, cultural activists are determined to reclaim a language – Afrikaaps
Tunisia’s democratic dream
Is Tunisia’s democracy being dismantled by its president?
Botswana: Living with elephants
The battle to keep the peace between people and elephants in northern Botswana
Returning to Romania
With 20% of its population living abroad, the Romanian government wants its diaspora back
When Wagner came home
The fear stalking Russia as ex-convicts from the Wagner mercenary group return home
Zimbabwe's worker exodus
Why tens of thousands of Zimbabweans are fleeing their country to work in the West
Belize's blue bond
Can a financial deal with a conservation charity save Belize's economy?
Singing Morocco's new identity
The young female stars of Gnawa music now challenging the boundaries of Moroccan identity
Surviving Greece's migrant boat disaster
Three men describe surviving one of the worst migrant shipwrecks in decades
Missing in Syria
The desperate search by thousands of Syrian families for their missing relatives
How a war has changed a Norwegian town
How once friendly relations between Norway and Russia have frozen in the far north
Germany: Jail for fare-dodging
Why travelling without a ticket on public transport in Germany could land you in jail
Gabon’s dark football secret
BBC Africa Eye investigates the sexual abuse of young footballers in Gabon
America’s hidden histories
A new statue in Virginia shines a light on histories hidden in plain sight
The village versus the mine
An ancient village in northern Portugal fights plans for a lithium mine on its doorstep
The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Russian Theatre
How Russia’s oldest independent theatre – from a remote town - was forced into exile
Taught to fear: Corporal punishment in the classroom
Reported cases of teachers beating their students in Kenyan schools are on the rise
The Jews and Arabs coexisting in crisis
Jews and Arabs working together to keep the peace in their Israeli neighbourhoods
The mighty Mekong’s last hope
A journey though Cambodia where the Mekong river is feared to be in crisis
Florida's political refugees
From Miami to Chicago, Lucy Proctor meets the conservatives and liberals swapping states
Poland's forest frontier
Poland builds a wall through one of Europe’s most precious forests. What’s the impact?
Cyprus: The battle over songbird slaughter
How killing migrating birds became a multi-million dollar criminal business
Ukraine: Fighting for openness
Meet the citizens battling for better government on Ukraine's home front
Ukraine: Building back better
How will Ukraine ensure the billions needed to rebuild the country are properly spent?
Bolivia’s giant fish intruder
The giant freshwater fish that's invading Bolivia's Amazonian rivers
Bones that speak
Thousands of people were killed in the 'war on drugs' in the Philippines
The struggle for Barbuda's future
How a resort for millionaires sparked a battle for a Caribbean island paradise
Bulgaria: The people smugglers
The men who risk jail to help migrants across Europe
American mercenaries: Killing in Yemen
Why former soldiers were hired to carry out assassinations in Yemen in 2015
Spain: The kiss and the culture war
Has feminism gone too far? A world cup kiss that set a match to Spanish gender relations
Is Ireland’s reputation for tolerance under threat?
Tensions are rising in Ireland over the increasing number of refugees
Tempting fate: Istanbul's earthquake dilemma
Scientists predict Istanbul is under threat of an earthquake any day now
Pakistan: Journalists under fire
Journalists in Pakistan speak of coming under threat for criticising the authorities
Educating Tibet
Are Tibetans being forced into Chinese language schools, made to abandon their culture?
Border Stories, part 1: Zero Tolerance
The ongoing effects of Zero Tolerance, the policy that divided families on the US border
Border Stories, part 2: Coyotes and kidnap
Tales of kidnap and extortion from those who risk everything to enter the US from Mexico
Choking in Chiang Mai
What it’s like to live and die in a polluted city
Secret sisters: Political prisoners in Belarus
Belarus has huge numbers of political prisoners and many of them are women
New Caledonia: New agreement needed
New Caledonia – the French territory negotiating how the islands are run in the future
Reggaeton: The pride of Puerto Rico?
Reggaeton’s the soundtrack to Puerto Rico, reflecting the cultural and political scene.
Armenia's lost garden
The life and death of a non-existent country - and the rebirth of its improbable pub
Kosovo: Euro or bust?
Could new financial restrictions revive the spectre of violence?