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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

Chris Morris explores India's ambitious plans for a new generation of low budget cars, and a modern road network on which to drive them.

Natalia Antelava investigates how hundreds of young children have been infected by the HIV virus inside the hospitals of Central Asia.

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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

The BBC's Matt Frei returns to the small town of Culpeper,Virginia. In this critical swing state he takes the political pulse of the voters.

Crispin Thorold in Saudi Arabia investigates plans for an entirely new city in the desert.

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

Mark Urban returns to the Baghdad suburb Dora, once known as 'the worst place in Iraq', to see if things there have improved.

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

When Russian tanks entered Georgian territory this autumn, European security was shaken to the core. But what really happened, and who was to blame?

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

Rupert Wingfield-Hayes takes a leisurely drive in a Volga car down the Volga river.