The northern French port of Calais is facing an international refugee crisis. Thousands of illegal migrants have descended on the town with the intention of ... read more
It's the first planned Palestinian city, a billion dollar project to build homes for 25,000 people with a soccer stadium and even an amphitheatre, complete w... read more
From Walmart to Apple, from Colorado to California, many companies across the United States say they are bringing jobs back from overseas. As wages rise in c... read more
In Uganda few people are willing to talk about mental illness. Those who suffer are frequently isolated, shunned by their community and rejected by their fam... read more
The Front National was once regarded as a marginal, extremist political party, but economic turmoil in Europe has thrust it into the mainstream of French Pol... read more
With exclusive behind the scenes access, Rupa Jha reports for Our World on the most lavish Indian wedding since independence. Thanks to two decades of dramat... read more
Eritrea has been described as one of the most secretive states in the world. Every year, thousands of people flee indefinite military service and arbitrary i... read more
For years it has been hidden in the dusty corner of an abandoned theatre - a magnificent instrument allowed to moulder away in an Islamist-ruled territory wh... read more
St Helena is preparing for its new airport to receive its first flights. Our World meets St Helenians to discover how they feel about the end to their isolat... read more
Our World sets out to discover whether hunting the poachers can save the rhino.
Last year a record number of rhinos were illegally slaughtered for their h... read more
More than 6,000 people have been killed in Ukraine since fighting erupted between Ukrainian forces and Russian-backed rebels last Spring. A million people ha... read more
Central Asian governments are facing pressure from China to clamp down on Uighur demands for their own state. For the eleven million Uighur people who live i... read more
It has been 100 years since the massacres and mass deportation of Armenians who lived in the Ottoman Empire, now Turkey. Armenians say one and a half million... read more
For years they were imprisoned, beaten, and raped. Now Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus, two of the girls who were kidnapped by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, Ohio,... read more
A team of Norwegian scientists has spent the winter on a research ship in the Arctic examining the sea ice. They say it's becoming thinner. David Shukman has... read more
More than 7 thousand people were killed by the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015, and hundreds of thousands more were made homeless. For Nepalis living in po... read more
For years it has been hidden in the dusty corner of an abandoned theatre, a magnificent instrument allowed to moulder away in an Islamist-ruled territory whe... read more
In January a high-profile prosecutor was found in a pool of blood in his bathroom, days before he was due to release a report condemning the Argentine govern... read more
When the RMS Lusitania set sail from New York for England in May 1915 the German government took out adverts in the American newspapers warning that travelle... read more
Iraq's second city is closed to the outside world and tightly controlled by its new rulers. With exclusive, secretly filmed footage of life in Mosul, Yalda H... read more
The War on Drugs in the United States led to a huge increase in America's prison population. For decades, hundreds of thousands of people convicted of even m... read more
Our World documents the heroism and horror of what is happening in the Mediterranean on a daily basis and tries to discover what motivates a person to risk a... read more
During the civil war in Bosnia, hundreds of Arab jihadists came to join Bosnian Muslims fighting against their neighbours the Serbs and Croats. Grouped into ... read more
A new drug of choice, ketamine, is flooding China's night clubs, and the Chinese authorities are losing the battle to stop its spread. Criminal gangs have di... read more
Over the past ten years, thousands of unaccompanied children have fled to the UK from war-torn Afghanistan, but when they turn 18 they have to return or face... read more
Malaria kills a child every minute and disables millions of adults. While there has been success in tackling the disease, malarial mosquitos are posing a new... read more
Alexander Litvinenko, a former Russian spy, was poisoned in a London hotel in November 2006. He drank tea laced with radioactive polonium, and died three wee... read more
Zarghuna Kargar tells the story of Farkhunda, a 27-year-old Afghan woman, and religious scholar who was brutally murdered by a mob in the streets of Kabul in... read more
An escalating ground and air war in Yemen, against Iranian-backed Houthi rebels, has brought the country to the point of collapse. Millions of people are in ... read more
Mukul Devichand reports on the mood amongst bloggers in Bangladesh following the murders of four atheist internet bloggers, apparently for challenging religi... read more
With Nikki Fox. Rio de Janeiro is gearing up for its big year. The famous Brazilian city will host the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. But what is everyda... read more
During Sierra Leone's ten-year civil war seven thousand children were forced to join the fighting, abducted from their families, drugged and made to kill. As... read more
Growing numbers of Russians are consulting mystics and psychics. It's been a longstanding flirtation - most famously, a century ago, the country's last Royal... read more
Just four years after South Sudan was granted independence, becoming the world's newest country, it has descended into chaos and conflict. The fighting, most... read more
In the UAE, sex outside marriage can land you in prison. Three women tell of how they fell foul of the law, revealing that it's often pregnant women and moth... read more
In 1988, in the final months of the Iran-Iraq War, the Kurdish city of Halabja was devastated in a chemical weapons attack by Saddam Hussein. An estimated 50... read more
Greece's biggest cities have run out of places to bury the dead. Graves are now rented rather than owned, and, after three years, bodies are exhumed to make ... read more
The Ebola outbreak in Sierra Leone lasted 18 months. Despite the country being declared free of the disease in November, thousands of survivors now face a bl... read more
In the midst of the refugee crisis Catrin Nye spends three months in Gera, in the east of Germany, as new residents arrive from war-torn Syria. She follows t... read more
Duncan Kennedy finds out why mystery still surrounds the sinking of RMS Lusitania, and pieces together what happened on that fateful last journey in which mo... read more