In 2008 Barack Obama called slavery 'America's original sin'. But how much of a difference did his eight-year presidency make to the lives of African-America... read more
Entire families of adult chimpanzees are being slaughtered by poachers in Africa in order to capture newborn chimps to sell as pets in the Middle East and As... read more
India is that rare thing in animal conservation: a success story. Nowhere exemplifies that success more than Kaziranga National Park. But for many, the gains... read more
Almost 40 years after the Cambodian genocide, which cost more than two million lives, people are still struggling to come to terms with what happened. A new ... read more
BBC journalist Basheer Al-Zaidi grew up in Mosul, the Iraqi city taken over by so-called Islamic State in 2014. Now, Iraqi forces are engaged in a fierce bat... read more
The dead are a constant presence in the Toraja area of Sulawesi in Indonesia. Centuries-old traditions mean the dead share space with the living. Sahar Zand ... read more
In the Bajhang district of western Nepal, centuries-old taboos about menstruation still affect the lives of girls and women. Menstruating females are believe... read more
In the town where Europe's worst atrocity since the Second World War took place, some local politicians, and the new mayor, refuse to accept that genocide ha... read more
In Ecuador a transgender couple became an international news sensation by announcing that he, Fernando Machado, was pregnant to his transgender girlfriend, D... read more
For six years the Kenyan army has been fighting the Somali Islamist militants Al Shabaab. As part of an exclusive investigation, the BBC has discovered that ... read more
Syria's national football team is in with a real chance of qualifying for the World Cup. It is an astonishing achievement for a country entering its seventh ... read more
Hawaii's beaches have long been a draw for tourists, but many glittering hotel facades now sit alongside squalid camps, as the state has the highest rate of ... read more
A brilliant student, Mashal Khan, was brutally murdered by a mob on a university campus in Pakistan earlier in 2017 after he was accused of blasphemy. The ki... read more
Sicily is on the frontline of Italy's escalating migrant crisis. More than 80,000 people are believed to have crossed the Mediterranean from Libya to Italy i... read more
In the Netherlands and across Europe, thousands of Iranian refugees are converting to Christianity. Are these converts 'born-again Christians' or simply pray... read more
In the Syrian city of Raqqa, the group that calls itself 'Islamic State' is under siege. Its fighters are surrounded by a Kurdish-led, US-backed coalition. G... read more
In Venezuela daily protests against President Maduro's government have resulted in scores of deaths. Inflation, malnutrition and even starvation are on the r... read more
The BBC's China editor, Carrie Gracie, has traveled from the east of China to the west of Europe, to hear from people who live along the route of China's new... read more
Yalda Hakim has been to Mosul to meet survivors and discover how they endured three years of brutal rule under ISIS, and whether they can now rebuild their d... read more
The youngest and most vulnerable are paying a terrible price for over two years of war in Yemen as food, medical shortages and now a deadly cholera outbreak ... read more
Tens of thousands of Madagascar's poor are flocking to the country's remote forests to illegally mine for sapphires. But the wealth they seek comes at an env... read more
What has Che Guevara's legacy been in Cuba, and would he recognise the country that it has now become? The BBC's Cuba correspondent, Will Grant, reports from... read more
Over a million refugees have entered Germany in the past three years, more than anywhere else in Europe. What has the effect been on the country and the migr... read more
The songbird trade in Indonesia is booming, causing dozens of protected species to be threatened with extinction. Our World's Victoria Gill travels to meet c... read more
In Ukraine more than 30,000 children with disabilities are living in state-run institutions. A few are orphans, but most have families - yet they spend much ... read more
As they retreat from northern Iraq, Isis has left thousands of women and children behind. A desperate effort is now underway to reunite these women and child... read more
Two months ago Hurricane Maria devastated the US territory of Puerto Rico, depriving many of electricity and clean water, and destroying vital infrastructure... read more
More than 20 years after the Bosnian war ended an international court is about to deliver its verdict on the genocide case against Bosnian Serb army commande... read more
In recent months, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled from Myanmar to Bangladesh, driven from their homes by the Burmese army and local Buddh... read more
Selective mutism is a condition which deprives some children of the ability to speak at will. For the youngsters affected - and their parents - it can cause ... read more
At just three days old, Kati Pohler was left on a street in the Chinese city of Suzhou. At the time, China's 'one-child policy' banned parents from having a ... read more