The One Laptop Per Child project is committed to providing computer technology to children in developing countries. Rory Cellan Jones has been to Nigeria, wh... read more
The story of a young extremist who used the internet to spread hatred and the efforts of those trying to track him down. Calling himself 'terrorist 007,' he ... read more
President Mugabe, whose regime has brought Zimbabwe to the verge of collapse, is now likely to face a challenge for power from within his own Zanu-PF party. ... read more
The United States' faltering economy has emerged as the main concern of voters ahead of this year's presidential election. Matthew Price hitched a ride on a ... read more
Steve Rosenberg travels to Copenhagen and Bavaria to uncover the story of former Danish SS officer Soeren Kam. Although named as one of the top ten Nazi war ... read more
In Mexico they're developing a progressive policy which allows children born in jail to stay with their mothers until six years old. Duncan Kennedy has exclu... read more
Tuvalu, one of the smallest and most remote nations on Earth, faces the real danger of disappearing under water within 50 years because of rising sea levels ... read more
China's first generation of cars and home owners are growing up. They are independent and successful, but what more do they want? Quentin Sommerville meets f... read more
Sierra Leone and Sweden represent the worst and the best that life has to offer children. The BBC's medical correspondent Fergus Walsh visits both countries ... read more
The United States tops the scales when it comes to obesity - and nowhere is bigger than Mississippi. The BBC's Media Correspondent Fergus Walsh investigates ... read more
This weekend millions of Zimbabweans are going to the polls. In the highly charged race for the presidency, Robert Mugabe is being challenged from inside his... read more
Jonah Fisher spent six weeks on a Greenpeace ship tracking the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean. What happened when they finally caught up with t... read more
Is fostering Western style government in poorer countries the best way to bring peace and raise living standards? Humphrey Hawksley travelled from war torn I... read more
Coral islands in the Pacific may be remote but their flora and fauna are battling against a rising tide of other people's plastic waste. David Shukman travel... read more
Coral islands in the Pacific may be remote but their flora and fauna are battling against a rising tide of other people's plastic waste. David Shukman travel... read more
BBC Correspondent Mark Urban has been embedded with British troops around Musa Qala in Afghanistan. Joining the soldiers on operations as they come across pe... read more
Israel turns 60 in May, with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict rarely out of the news. But beyond the headlines of violence there is an untold story in Jaffa.... read more
Sixty years ago Israel established itself in the wake of the British Mandate of Palestine. For the Palestinians, expelled from their homes in the process, th... read more
Tuberculosis is an ancient killer which has staged an alarming resurgence. It kills more people each year than any infectious disease apart from HIV/AIDS. Fe... read more
Another chance to see this awarding-winning film in a newly updated version. Olenka Frenkiel reports on the plight of North Korean refugees as they seek to e... read more
Every year, unseen by the rest of the world, thousands of refugees cross the freezing waters of the Tumen River into China hoping to escape the repressive re... read more
Duncan Kennedy investigates Mexico's heavily armed drugs cartels. He uncovers training camps where gang members are prepared to fight an increasingly violent... read more
From the shelter of Pakistan's remote tribal areas, fighters strike against international forces in Afghanistan and attack the government in Pakistan's citie... read more
The Saudi Arabia government is employing a radical approach to win back the hearts and minds of those who have committed atrocities on behalf of groups like ... read more
The story of three men from one Northern Ireland town, Coleraine, with the shared dream of Olympic rowing glory in China.
For the past 18 months Our World h... read more
Six months after a peace deal brought an end to Kenya's post election violence, Our World examines what is being done to repair the damage. Kenyans are despa... read more
China's Olympic slogan is 'One World, One Dream', and it hopes the Beijing games will herald a new era in its relations with the world. But what lies beyond ... read more
With the Atlantic hurricane season in full flight, Simon Hancock visits America's Tornado Alley. He joins thrillseekers who hunt down the spectacular storms ... read more
In the United States and Africa the answer to the global food crisis is being sought partly in genetically modified crops. But in Europe there's hostility to... read more
The south-western US is suffering its eighth year of drought. There are concerns that the Colorado River can no longer meet the needs of the tens of millions... read more
Fourteen million people around the world are known to suffer from Alzheimer's. We meet the sufferers and their carers, as well as the scientists racing to fi... read more
The former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, is on trial for war crimes but what about the country he left behind? The Bosnian war ended 13 years ago. T... read more
Spain is in the grip of its worst drought in 40 years. Barcelona is now importing drinking water, and thousands of farmers have abandoned their parched land.... read more
The BBC's Mark Doyle meets the African Union peacekeepers trying to maintain order in one of the world's most lawless capitals, Mogadishu. He discovers a mil... read more
At the 90th anniversary of the Armistice, Robert Hall meets Henry Allingham. In this intimate portrait, Britain's oldest man remembers his childhood at the t... read more
David Shukman in Alaska discovers that the massive melt of arctic ice is opening up new opportunities to exploit the natural resources of this northern wilde... read more
For five days in August, Russia and Georgia went to war over the tiny breakaway region of South Ossetia.
Our Moscow correspondent Richard Galpin returns to ... read more
Southern California recently undertook America's biggest ever emergency drill - to test its readiness for a potentially catastrophic earthquake. Rajesh Mirch... read more
The BBC's Alan Johnston - himself held hostage in Gaza for four months - talks to Ingrid Betancourt, who lived through six years of captivity and torture in ... read more
Carrie Gracie returns to White Horse Village deep in rural China. She finds out who is winning and who is losing out as the old way of life is demolished to ... read more