Advances in technology are allowing scientists to understand the human brain as never before. Susan Watts looks at new approaches to dealing with mental illn... read more
A billionaire in Dagestan is pouring vast sums of money into the republic's football team in a bid to bring stability. But can changing things on the pitch r... read more
Two years after the devastating earthquake hit Haiti, 500,000 people are still living in tents. Now Haiti's new president has a vision - investment, jobs, an... read more
It's more than 50 years since the only successful manned mission to the deepest point on the planet - the Mariana Trench. Now a new wave of explorers is raci... read more
Globalisation has brought the world's goods to the west. But how can rich consumers be sure they are buying food and clothing manufactured without harming wo... read more
Prescription drug abuse is devastating the communities of Canada's indigenous First Nations peoples. Linda Pressly reports from Northern Ontario where addict... read more
Chris Rogers investigates the plight of illegal migrants from India trapped in the UK without a home, work or an identity, and goes to their home villages to... read more
The government in the Philippines wants to provide free contraception to help cut the birth rate and reduce poverty. The proposal puts it on a collision cour... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. A hundred years after the sinking of the Titanic on its maiden voyage Jon Kay reports from the memorial cruise.
In Bangladesh one in five girls are married by the age of 15, even though that breaks the law. Angus Crawford reports from Dhaka on an extraordinary new camp... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner travels the world's most dangerous seas, to experience the threat f... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. As the men accused of responsibility for planning the 9/11 attacks face trial by a military commission, Peter Tayl... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Spain is reeling from allegations that thousands of babies were taken from their mothers and trafficked. Katya Adl... read more
As a wave of protests and self-immolations continues against the rule of China on the Tibetan plateau, Sue Lloyd-Roberts asks the Dalai Lama if the dream of ... read more
Honduras has the highest murder rate in the world. Linda Pressly meets the staff of the People's Funeral Service, who deal each day with the fall-out from th... read more
The biggest gas reserves on the planet are in the Russian Arctic. Lucy Ash travels to the remote Yamal Peninsula, high above the Arctic Circle, to meet both ... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. A special project at a hospital in Jordan is treating patients from across the Middle East who have been caught up... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. India receives adequate rainfall for its billion-plus population, but the country is facing a crisis as water is d... read more
Tim Samuels investigates the case of Krishna Maharaj - a Briton imprisoned for murder in Miami more than a quarter of a century ago, and still behind bars de... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Peter Marshall reports on the corrupt politician who stole vast sums of money from the people of Nigeria, and the ... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Katya Adler examines the extent of far-right extremism in Germany following a recent outcry when it emerged that a... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Despite ANC pledges to combat the issue, millions of South African lives are blighted by corruption. But the peopl... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world, Humphrey Hawksley goes to the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda to investigate the link between minerals, wa... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. John Sudworth spends a year following the lives of pupils in a Shanghai school as they prepare for the university ... read more
John Sweeney reports undercover from Belarus on the bombing of the Minsk metro and the trial and execution of two men for the crime. But were they really gui... read more
Karachi is facing a drugs epidemic - it is estimated that half a million chronic heroin addicts live in the port city which is a main route to the west. Mobe... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. Laura Trevelyan explores the hidden world of sex trafficking, from a small Mexican town built on the profits of th... read more
In modern-day Iraq, many have become targeted for their sexual orientation. Natalia Antelava travels to Baghdad where she investigates government involvement... read more
Featuring news on issues around the world. The Brazilian mega-city of Sao Paulo has the worst traffic jams in the world. Paulo Cabral looks at how frustrated... read more
Scientists say the Arctic ice is melting at an unprecedented speed and they fear it could have a dramatic effect on the weather in Europe. David Shukman repo... read more